Working with styles is an effective way to keep certain elements in your document using the same styling so that everything looks uniform as you create your document.

The steps above discuss modifying the page style that is associated with the page numbers in your document. This keyboard shortcut for the Styles menu can be handy if you find yourself changing styles on a regular basis.

You can also remove page numbers from that Page Numbers dropdown menu as well.Īnother way to open the Styles menu is to press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S on your keyboard. Here you can do things like change the number format, include chapter numbers, and adjust how the page numbering progresses throughout the document. If you added your page numbers from the Insert menu you can go back to that location, click the Page Numbers drop down menu, then select Format Page Numbers. If you elect to save the style to the current template then you will have access to it for future documents so that you can use the page number style that you just modified. If you aren’t using a custom template then you are likely in the “Normal” template. When you are modifying the page number style in Microsoft Word you have the option of saving that style to the current template. This allows you to do things like change the font size of the page numbers, or to change the color of the page numbers in your Word document.

You can do this by selecting the page numbers in the header or footer, clicking the Home tab, then using the options in the Font section to change the appearance o the page numbers. While we have focused primarily on the page number style in the article above as a way to adjust the appearance of your page numbers, you can also format your page numbers the same way that you format most other text in the document. More Information on How to Change the Font of Page Numbers with Styles in Word You can continue below for additional discussion on using styles to format page numbers in a Microsoft Word document.

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