Turning off page numbers in Word

Jolly_Roger

I have a 300-page Word document in which page numbers have been inserted. I have looked endlessly, but can't find how to turn these off and return the document to unnumbered pages. There must be a way to do this, but I need some help in finding it!

Can anybody help?

cambermam

If you manually delete the first one they should all go. It might be embedded into the header or footer

WTFH

Are they showing in the header/footer? If so, go to headers and footers, then delete them. You might have to delete from each section.

Laz123

Double-click in the header or footer on the first page whichever has the page number and delete the number 1, then double-click in the margin and all the page numbers should have gone.

Jolly_Roger

Sorry guys, I am desperately trying to follow what you are telling me to do, but without success. I've never used headers or footers before, I simply used page numbers from the main menu.

Could you break down how I actually find the way into deleting the first page number, for example. I can't highlight it, and have found no way delete it.

Thanks.

Jolly_Roger

Don't worry - cracked it! Thanks for your help.