Roman page numbering

So, my dissertation's nearly finished and I'm checking the University's formatting specifications. They want the main body from the Introduction to start at page 1. No problem: insert section break and restart numbering.
But they want all the pages up to page 1 (e.g. abstract, preface, tables of content) to have Roman numeral numbering (i, ii, iii, iv etc.)
I can't find any way to specify this (I don't think it's possible), but I also can't find a manual workaround e.g. I can't insert a text box near the bottom of a TOC page without it going into the footer field, where it immediately behaves like a footer item.
Any ideas?
Given the high uptake of Apple laptops by students, I'm surprised they don't make Pages more academic-friendly. The above function is pretty basic, as would a usable way of a) captioning illustrations and b) automatically listing those captions in their own TOC. For that facility alone I nearly did the whole thing in Word but resisted and resigned myself to creating an table of illustrations by hand.
Still, it's getting better, the graphs look great and it was a pleasure to work with compared to MSW.

Thanks Peggy. That's just perfect - talk about a buried feature. But that's just what one hopes for in these forums! How did you know? Is it in the manual somewhere or were you just exploring?
You don't happen to have a solution to the captioning issue do you?
I have a work around which goes like this:
1. Insert photo (illustration/whatever) as floating object - full width of page.
2. Create floating text box and insert caption - also full width of page.
3. Group 1 & 2 together, resize and locate as inline object with text wrap (if desired).
4. Make manual list of illustrations in a table.
The good news is that I can still edit the text of the caption even when the items are grouped - and it does work - but it's not quick or pretty.

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