Excluding Sections from Page Numbering

[GoKats78]

I have a document with 22 Sections. I need to insert page numbers in "Page of Pages" format.
When I do so, the "of Pages" counts the 5 pages in the first section as part of the total. This is not what I need...

How do I do this?

[Tinbendr]

How did you insert the page counter?

Here's an article about Word's numbering, but especially read the last line here.