You can add page numbers, which are associated with headers and footers, to the top, the bottom, or the margins of a document. Information that is stored in headers and footers or margins appears dimmed, and it cannot be changed at the same time as the information in the body of the document.

To change the header or footer or the information in the page margins, do the following: Double-click the header or footer, and then click the Headers & Footers tab under Header & Footer Tools.

For more information about headers and footers, see .What do you want to do?

I don't see any page number designs in the gallery

If you don't see any built-in header and footer designs in the gallery, building blocks add-ins may be unavailable. To make sure built-in designs appear in all of the Microsoft Office Word building block galleries, do the following:

  1. Click the Microsoft Office Button button image, and then click Word Options.
  2. Click Add-Ins.
  3. In the Manage list, select Disabled Items, and then click Go.
  4. Click Building Blocks.dotx, and click Enable.
  5. Restart Word.

Insert page numbers

You can choose from various page numbering designs that are available in the gallery.

Insert page numbers or Page X of Y page numbers

  1. On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number.

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  2. Click Top of Page, Bottom of Page, or Page Margins, depending on where you want page numbers to appear in your document.
  3. Choose a page numbering design from the gallery of designs. The gallery includes Page X of Y options.

Format page numbers

After you add page numbers, you can change them just as you might change text in a header or footer. Change the format of the page number, the font, or the size.

Change the page-number format, such as 1, i, or a

  1. Double-click the header or footer of one of your document pages.
  2. Under Header & Footer Tools, on the Design tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number, and then click Format Page Numbers.
  3. In the Number format box, click a numbering style, and then click OK.

Change the font and size of page numbers

  1. Double-click the header, footer, or page margins of one of your document pages.
  2. Select the page number.
  3. On the Mini toolbar that appears above the selected page number, do one of the following:
    • To change the font, click a font name in the box font box.
    • To make the font size larger or smaller, do one of the following:
      • To make the text larger, click Grow Font. Or press CTRL+SHIFT+>.
      • To make the text smaller, click Shrink Font. Or press CTRL+SHIFT+<.

      • Note You can also specify a font size on the Home tab, in the Font group.

Start or restart the page numbering

Do any of the following:

Start the page numbering with a different number

For example, if you add a cover page to a document with page numbers, the second page is automatically numbered page 2. You might want the document to begin with page 1.

  1. Click anywhere in the document.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number.

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  3. Click Format Page Numbers.
  4. In the Start at box, enter a number.

    Note If you have a cover page and you want the first page of the document to start at 1, type 0 in the Start at box.

Restart the page numbering with 1 for each chapter or section

For example, you can number the table of contents i through iv and the rest of the document 1 through 25. If your document contains multiple chapters, you may want to restart page numbering for each chapter.

  1. Click in the section in which you want to restart page numbering.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number.

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  3. Click Format Page Numbers.
  4. In the Start at box, enter 1.

Remove page numbers

Microsoft Office Word automatically removes or deletes page numbers when you click Remove Page Numbers or when you remove a single page number manually from the document.

  1. On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Page Number.

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  2. Click Remove Page Numbers.

Note If you created different first-page or odd and even headers or footers, or if you have sections that aren't linked, be sure to remove the page numbers from each different header or footer.