How to add page Numbering in Microsoft office word

Numbering pages in Microsoft office word.

Did you number your project?

hmm if not then what did

you refer the page content to?

Numbering your pages is important so you can easily recognize witch page holds what information or topics. If I had to ask someone to extract information on a particular topic in a Microsoft word document, but I don’t know the page number, simply because I did not include any, you should notice that it becomes difficult for the person searching. What if i said, keep scrolling till you find it? doesn't that sound annoying?. What if the documents pages amount to about a hundred pages or even more? Will you have the patience to keep scrolling till you find it? It’s really boring and you could get tired and pass across what you’re looking for without even noticing it. Lets forget about the search box, not many people will know how to use or think of anything of that nature.

There are several reasons why it’s important to number a word document.

a. Easy reference

b. Easy to include page content according to page numbers.

c. Easy assembling after printing out.

And many many more reasons. If you did not include page numbers in a project you typed, knowing fully well that each project requires page contents, how do you expect to include page contents without numbers? It gets really difficult.

However I will be taking a full responsibility, showing you a step by step procedure to adding page numbers in Microsoft word.

Adding page numbers in Microsoft word

1. Point to insert in the Microsoft word tool bar

2. Choose page number from the down menu

3. Chose where you want the number to appear on page and click on your choice and your page numbering is inserted. The page numbering appears according to your position choice. Another important part of it is that they can be edited in case you don't like the current position. To change the page numbers location and type, for example. If you wanted i, ii, iii, instead of 1,2,3 or a,b,c. All page numbers most be in either Footer or Header of the pages, so don't try typing page numbers in the main page, ells you just got your document messed up.

Change page number location,

Point to insert from the tool bar, choose a different page number location from page number drop down. When you choose, it immediately changes its position and moves to the newly assigned area.

Changing page number type, for example i, ii, iii, instead of 1,2,3 or a,b,c,

i. From the tool menu, click insert then page numbers.

ii. Choose "Format page numbers" from the drop down menu.

iii. In the pup up window, choose your numbering style and confirm OK.