Book Page Number Position

Choose top of page position and from its submenu select the required style from the list.

Book page number position. Go ahead and click that. Left side pages should be even numbered and right side pages should be odd numbered. See the headers and footers section for more information.

While in the footer the ribbon should swap to the header footer menu and you ll see the insert page numbers button. It will insert page number at the top right corner of the page. Below a list of styles available for page numbering.

So let s cover that one first. For inserting page numbers in footer select style from page number bottom of the page. The position where the number appear in the page is determined by the page style used in the document.

This prevents the page numbers from being obscured by the book s binding and makes them easier to see as you flip through pages. Customize page number format. If you have excessive front matter e g a six page foreword use lower case roman numerals i ii iii to number the front matter.

End sheets should be included in the number of pages on your quote. Word also has an option for that. You ll find that most books take this approach so that the page number appears toward the left side on the left even pages and toward the right side on the right odd pages.

Page numbers should be placed at the outer margin of the running header. Head to the first page you want your numbers to appear on probably the first page of the first chapter and double click on the footer. Page numbers called folios should start with the first page of text as page 1.