You can see the different formats of page numbers are inserted into the page ranges. Put the cursor at the start of the second section, and click Insert > Page Number, specify another format you need from the drop-down list.
Put the cursor at the top area of the first page, and click Insert > Page Number, specify a format you need from the drop-down list, and the page number is inserted. Double click at the top area of the second range to show the Header and Footer, then click Design and uncheck Link to Previous. Repeat step 1 to insert section breaks into the end of each range, here, I just divide the whole document into two ranges. Put the cursor at the end of the first range and click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. If you want to add different formats of page numbers in different page ranges of a documents, do as follows:įirst, divide the document into page ranges by using section break. Then, slide the double-arrow cursor up or down to adjust the margin. To adjust the top or bottom margins, hover your cursor over the inner border of the gray area of the vertical ruler until your cursor becomes a double arrow. Tip: If you want to add page numbers to -3 and -8, just need to insert three section breaks to divide the document into four sections (, -3, -5 and -8) then uncheck Link to Previous in Section 2 and Section 4) Slide the double-arrow cursor to the left or right to adjust the margin. Now the page numbers are only inserted into and : Double click the contents of the document or click Design > Close Header and Footer to close the Header. Here is the example of clicking Top of Page > Plain Number 1. If you want numbering to start with 1 on the second page, go to Page Number > Format Page Numbers, and set Start at to 0. If you don't want a page number to appear on the first page, select Different First Page. Select a type of page number from Top of Page and Button of Page section under Page Number drop-down menu. Select Insert > Page Number, and then choose the location and style you want. Go back and click on the top of the and click Insert > Page Number. Step 4.Double click at the top area of to activate the Header and then click Design and uncheck Link to Previous. You can see the document has been divided into three sections (Section 1- Section 2-3 Section 3 – -5 Now you can begin to add page numbers to page 2 and page 3. Click Home > Show/Hide Editing Marks to show the section breaks in document. Put the cursor at the end of the third page, and click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. Put the cursor at the end of the first page, then click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. Just click this option and it will delete all the page numbers set in your document.For example, there are five pages existing in your Word document, and you just want the page number to show on the page 2 and page 3, you can do as follows.įirstly, you need to insert section breaks to divide the whole document into three sections. At the bottom, you will have the Remove Page Numbers option. This will display a list of options to display page number at the top, bottom, current position, etc. Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click the Page Number button available in the header and footer section. The following steps will help you remove page numbering from a Word document. You can format your page numbers using the Format Page Numbers option available under the listed options. Click the Close Header and Footer button to come out of the Footer Edit mode. You will be directed to the Page Footer modification mode. I selected the Accent Bar 1 style by clicking over it. Step 3 − Finally, select any one of the page number styles. For example, when I take the mouse pointer at the Bottom of Page option it displays the following list of styles. Step 2 − When you move your mouse pointer over the available options, it displays further styles of page numbers to be displayed. This will display a list of options to display the page number at the top, bottom, current position etc. Add Page Numbersįollowing are the simple steps to add page numbers in a Word document. Typically, page numbers are printed either in header or footer but you have the option that can display the page number in the left or right margins at the top or the bottom of a page. Microsoft Word automatically assigns page numbers on the pages of your document.
#HOW TO CUSTOMIZE PAGE NUMBERS IN WORD WITH WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#
In this chapter, we will discuss how to add page numbers in Word 2010.