Insert Page Numbers

Place page numbers on each page of your document to make it more functional, or help your readers follow your work. Page numbers can also add an interesting part to your overall design.

If you'd like to insert page numbers into your document, follow these two easy steps:

• Select Insert from the Menu bar
• Select Page Numbers

  The Page Numbers dialog box appears offering you options on where you would like to position the page numbers.

Position

First you must decide if you would like to have your page numbers displayed in the headers or footers in each page of your document. A header inserts in the top margin; a footer inserts in the bottom margin.

Insert a page number into the header/footer of your document by doing the following:

• Select Header/Footer from the Position dialog box

Now you must decide how you would like to align your page numbers.

Alignment

You may align your page numbers in the left or right margins as well as in the center of the page.

Align your page numbers in the left or right margins or the center of the header/footer by following these few easy instructions:

• Select Left, Right, or Center from the Alignment drop-down
• Select OK

You have just completed this section of Lesson 4 and now know how to insert, position, and align page numbers. If you would like to move forward and learn how to create space within your document, select Next. If you'd like to go to a different section within this lesson or to a new lesson, choose one of the options in the Navigation bar.