Word 2013 can not only automatically number your pages, but it also lets you place the page number just about anywhere on the page and in a variety of fun and interesting formats. Start your page numbering odyssey thus:
To add page numbers: Word can automatically label each page with a page number and place it in a header, footer, or side margin. If you have an existing header or footer, it will be removed and replaced with the page number. On the Insert tab, click the Page Number command. The blue Header tab in the document will now read as First Page Header. Go to the Header area of the 2nd page [whose blue tab is simply labeled Header ] to add your Header content. That content will appear in the Header of the remaining pages as well leaving the First Page Header blank.
1Click the Insert tab.
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This will give you options for your page.
2In the Header & Footer area, click the Page Number command button.
A menu drops down, listing various page numbering options. The first three are locations: Top of Page, Bottom of Page, and Page Margins, or the sides of the page.
3Choose where to place the page numbers.
If you want your page numbers on the bottom of the page, choose the Bottom of Page option.
4Pluck a page numbering style from the scrolling list.
You can see oodles of samples, so don’t cut yourself short by not scrolling through the menu. You can even choose those famous page X of Y formats.
Dutifully, Word numbers each page in your document, starting with 1 on the first page, up to however many pages long the thing grows. Plus, if you delete a page, Word renumbers everything for you. Insert a page? Hey! Word renumbers everything for you again, automatically. As long as you insert the page number by following the preceding set of steps, Word handles everything.
The page numbers are placed into the document’s header or footer.
To change the page number format, simply choose a new one from the Page Number menu.
Page numbers can be removed just as easily.
Customize the document headers and footers in Word 2011 for Mac to show page numbers, dates, and logos for formal stationery. You can work with headers and footers in several of Word 2011’s views. The quick way to work with headers and footers is by way of the Header and Footer group on the Office 2011 Ribbon’s Document Elements tab.
Clicking either the Header or Footer button displays a gallery from which you can choose a style for your header or footer. The basic layout of three positions (left, center, and right) is the first style on the palette. Notice that some styles affect only odd-numbered or even-numbered pages. Some of the styles apply tables to the header or footer, so if you click into one of these styles, the Format Tables tab on the Ribbon will activate.
When you choose a header or footer style, Word changes the interface so that you can type in your header or footer. You can display this view by choosing View→Header and Footerwithout having to choose a style from the Ribbon. To work with the interface, simply click into it and type. Click the Page # button on the Ribbon to display the Page Numbers dialog, which you can use to choose alignment and formatting options for your page numbers.
To exit Header and Footer view, choose a view from the views listed in the topmost group of the View menu, or double-click the document body. You can also click the small Close button below the Header or above the Footer area.
You may want to format your Header or Footer to display Page # of #. To make this custom format starting without a Header or Footer style, do the following:
- Choose View→Header and Footer from the menu bar.
- Click within either the Header or Footer area.Your cursor will be at the left. Press Tab once or twice to move to the center or right, if desired.
- Type the word “Page,” followed by a space.
- Choose Insert→Field from the menu bar.
- Make sure that Categories is set to (All). Under Field names, choose Page and then click OK.
- Add a space and then type of followed by another space.
- Choose Insert→Field from the menu bar.
- Under Field Names, choose NumPages and then click OK.