How to Put Page Number in Word 2019

Mar 31, 2020 ยท 5 minute read

How to Create a Page Number in Word Document

First Method

1- Go to your word file.

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2- Go to insert tab and click on “Page number” key.

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3- Specify your desired location for the page number.

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4- you can see the pages number in your file.

close the “Header and Footer close” key.

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Second Method

1- Double-click on the footer or header of the page.

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2- Click on the Insert tab.

3- Select the page number.

4- Choose the Current Position.

5- Choose your desired style.

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How to Change Page Number Location;

For changing the location of the page number you should follow these steps;

1- Double-click on the footer or header of the page.

2- Select the page number.

3- For moving page number from left to middle press “Tab” key on your keyboard one time and if you want to send it to right side click tab key again.

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4- For moving backward press “Backspace” key in your keyboard.

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How to Change Page Number Appearance;

1- Double-click on the footer or header of the page.

2- Select the page number.

3- Click on the Home tab.

4- In the Font part modify the style, font and other characteristics which you need.

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How to Insert Page Number X of Y Style;

If you want to have total page numbers near the number of each page you should follow these steps;

First Method

1- Double click on the footer or header of your page.

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2- Click on the Insert tab and select page number.

3- Click on the Current position.

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4- In Page X of Y part click on the Bold Numbers.

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If you want to change the position of your page number for moving them to the right side click on the Tab key and for moving left side click on the Backspace.

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Second Method

1- Click on the Insert tab.

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2- Click on the page number.

3- Click on the bottom of the page.

4- In Page X of Y choose your desired position for the page number.

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5- select the “Design” tab and then click on the “Close Header and Footer”.

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How to Remove Page Number

For removing page number you can follow one of these methods;

First Method

1- Click on the Insert tab.

2- Click on the Page Number.

3- Click on the “Remove Page Numbers”.

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Second Method

1- Double click on the footer page.

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2- Select the page number.

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3- Click on the Delete key.

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4- Click on the “Header and Footer close” key.

How to Remove Page Number in Word on Certain Page;

Imagine you have this file and you want to remove only page number of page 4 from your file, for that you should follow these steps.

1- Go to the Layout tab.

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2- Find the first-page word you want to delete the page number.

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3- Click on “Break” key in “Page set up” part and click on the word before it starts.

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4- Double click on the footer part to open Design mode.

5- Click on the page you want to delete page number.

6- Click on “Link to Previous” key and unlink that page.

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7- Click on “Difference First Page” box. you can see, the page number of that page and the pages after that will be erased.

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8- Click on Insert tab and go to the “Page number” part.

9- Click on Page number Format and in the start at enter number 5, because we want to delete number 4.

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10- Go to Page number 5 and Find the first-page word of that and then go and click on “Break” key in “Page set up” part.

11- Double click on the footer of page 5 and on design tab uncheck “Difference first-page box”.

12- while your cursor is on page 5, Click on page number command and choose your desired page number format.

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13- you can see the page number of page 4 was deleted, page numbers were continued from page 5 to the end of the document pages.

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How to Add Different Page Numbers for Different Sections;

Imagine you have a book and you want to specify two different types of numbering in your book, the first one for the table of contents and the second one is started from the beginning of the book’s subject.

1- Go to the page which you want to start the second type of numbering.

2- On “Layout” tab click on “Breaks” and click on “Next page” key.

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3- If you go to the “Home” tab and click on Paragraph key, you can see “Section break” sign on the previous page.

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4- Click on the first page and go to the Insert tab and click on the page number and specify the location of numbering there.

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5- Make sure On the Design tab, Options section, Different First Page Number box is not selected.

6- Double click on Footer section, Go to the page which you want to start second numbering from there.

7- Click on “Link to Previous” key and unlink that page.

7- select the page number and delete it.

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9- In design mode go to the Page number and choose “Format page number”.

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10- In “Page number Format” menu in “Page numbering” part, click on “start at” and choose your desired number, here number one was chosen.

For more information about this part, you can follow Page Number Format page.

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11- In “Design mode” go to the “Page Number” and choose the location of your new numbering.

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12- You can see the numbering for your pages were created.

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How to Update Table of Contents Page Numbers;

1- Go to the table of content, you can see the page numbers in the table are not equal with the new numbering.

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2- Click on the table and click on “Update Table” and then choose “Update page numbers only” and click on “Ok”.

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3- You can see the pages number in the table of contents were updated.

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You can find more information in the Table of Content page.

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