5+ How to Create Page Numbers in Word for Beginners (100% Neat)

Create a document in Ms. Words such as proposals, papers, reports or others are certainly familiar to you, right?

So that the document you create is structured and easy to understand, you must be able to arrange each element in the document well, such as cover, preface, summary, table of contents, contents, and bibliography. For that, you need to create page numbering in the document.

Generally, parts of the document, such as the introduction to the table of contents, are numbered in Roman numerals (I, II, III, ….). Then, followed by CHAPTER I Introduction and so on whose numbering is in the form of Arabic numerals (1,2,3, …..).

Notes: This tutorial applies to all versions of Microsoft Office, from Office 2007, 2010 to Office 2021.

How to Create Page Numbers in Word

Although document creation in Word is common but some people still don’t understand how to make document numbering in World easily.

Well, in this tutorial we will learn to number document pages in Ms. Word, here I use Microsoft Word 2021. For more details, let’s look at the explanation of how to create page numbers in Word below.

1. How to Create Page Numbers (Basic)

Well, before you learn to modify page numbers any further, you need to learn how to enter page numbers. Learn the steps below.

1. Open your Microsoft Word.

2. Select tab Insert > Page Number, then select the position of the page number you want either above or below. For example, I chose Bottom of Page > Plain Number 2.

3. After that, page numbers will appear in the form of Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, …) on all Microsoft Word pages.

4. Then directly select Close Header & Footer.

2. How to Create Page Numbers in Roman Numerals

Previously you have learned to make page numbers in Arabic numerals. Well, now we will learn to number pages with roman numerals. Learn the steps below.

1. Open your Microsoft Word.

2. Select tab Insert > Page Number > Format Page Number to modify the page numbers.

3. Then the display will appear Page Number Format, select “Number Format” which is a roman numeral as indicated by the arrow. Click OK.

4. The result will look as indicated by the arrow in the image below.

3. How to get rid of page numbers in Cover Document

Every document generally has a cover (cover). Cover is the first page of a document which usually contains the title and author’s identity. In document numbering, all sections are numbered except the cover. The question is how to remove the page number on the cover? Check out the steps below.

1. Open your Microsoft Word.

2. Double click the page number of the document (here the page number is in roman numerals).

3. Then select tab Design, then tick Options > Different First Page. Then, the first page or cover will not have page numbers.

4. However, the second page (after the cover) still has page numbers starting from ii (number 2 in roman form) and not i (first number in roman).

4. How to Create a Second Page Numbered i (First Roman Numeral)

Previously, we already know how to remove page numbers on the cover, right? Well, now, we will learn to make a numbered second page i and not ii. Let’s see the steps below.

1. Open your document in Microsoft Word.

2. Then, activate the first page or cover by clicking on the last letter as shown in the image below, I clicked after the number 8 of 2021.

3. Select tab Layout > Breaks > Section Breaks > Continuous.

4. After “Continuous” is clicked, the page number on the second page also disappears where it previously had a number ii but now there is no number.

5. Try unchecking Different First Pages indicated by the arrow.

6. After unchecking, the second page now has page numbers and starts from i (first roman numeral) as indicated by the red arrow and so on.

5. How to Create Different Page Numbers in One Document

Generally in writing documents such as reports, papers or theses we use different page numbering in one document such as several parts of the document (cover, preface, table of contents) numbered with Roman numerals and other parts (CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II, CHAPTER III and bibliography) are numbered with Arabic numerals.

However, how to make different page numbers in one document? Let’s look at the steps below.

1. For example, we have numbered pages with roman numerals for the introduction to the table of contents. CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 2 and so on are also still numbered with Roman numerals. Whereas CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 2 and so on should have page numbers in the form of Arabic numerals starting from 1.

2. For that, click the last letter on the last page that uses roman numerals (eg table of contents). As in the picture, pointer is right after the number 1.

3. Select tab Layout > Breaks > Section Breaks > Continuous.

This makes the page has a lot of additional space, so you need to tidy it up again.

4. The next page (the first page that uses numbering) is still using Roman numerals. However, the order has changed and starts from the numbers i (number 1 in roman numerals).

5. To change numbers i Becomes 1 and so on, you need to format the page number by selecting tab Design > Page Numbers > Format Page Numbers.

6. Then the display will appear as shown in the image below. Then, on Number format, choose 1, 2, 3,… and on Start at, select number 1. Click OK.

7. Well, the result will look like in the image below.

That’s the discussion this time about how to make page numbers in Word easily and according to your wishes. After you read the tutorial article above, it is hoped that you will be able to make the page numbers as you want so that your thesis, paper or document looks neat and structured. Hopefully useful and good luck. Thank you!

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