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Simple method of hiding page number on the first page of your Microsoft Word document

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Introduction:

According to the standard in preparing documents in most institutions or organizations, it is usually expected that the page number should not appear on the first or title page of a document. Hence, different methods of ensuring that the page number becomes hidden on the first page have been tried. In this article, we will consider a simple and efficient method.

Any time you insert page numbers in your Microsoft Word document, the page numbers will appear on all the pages (including the first page) in your document. Page numbers could appear at the “Top of Page” (which is the header) or “Bottom of Page” (which is the footer), depending on where you have chosen to position them.

Nevertheless, if the first page in your document is a “Cover Page” that was inserted from the “Pages” group in the “Insert” menu tab, then, the first page will not carry any page number by default.

Figure 1 shows the first two pages of our document, and our task is to hide the page number from the first page (which is our title page).


 Figure 1: First two pages of our document

 

Hiding page number from the first page:

It is important to note that the page number appears at the “bottom of page" or footer position in our document.

The simple way to hide the page number is to double-click on the footer position of your document. After double-clicking on the footer position, the “Header and Footer Design” tab will appear on the Menu bar (as in Figure 2).

 Figure 2: Appearance of the “Header & Footer Design” menu tab

 

What you have to do next is to simply mark “Different First Page” from the “Options” group in the “Design” ribbon (as indicated in Figure 3), and then, the page number will disappear from the first page.

Figure 3: Page number hidden

Conclusion:

That’s simply what you have to do to hide page number from the first page of your document.

For more efficient methods of working with Microsoft Word Document, check out my book titled “Good Practices in Preparing Your Microsoft Word Document” on Amazon.

 

Thank you for reading.


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