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How to Insert Page Numbers in Word 2016

How to Insert Page Numbers in Word 2016

By Mitch Bartlett 8 Comments

Learn how to easily insert page numbers into the top or bottom page margins of your Microsoft Word 2016 documents with this tutorial.

  1. Select the “Insert“ tab, and then select the “Page Number” icon.
  2. Select to location you wish the page number to appear in.
    • Top of Page
    • Bottom of Page
    • Page Margins
    • Current Position
  3. Select the style of number you wish to use.
  4. If you want to change the numbering style or starting number, select “Format Page Numbers“. When done select “OK“.
    Word 2016 Page Numbers

Page numbers will generate automatically and will stay consistent even when you insert or remove a page from your Word document.

Note: In Word 2016, you can customize the options on each tab. If the “Page Numbers” option is missing from Word, it may have been removed. You can add it back by selecting the “Customize Quick Access” arrow, then selecting “More commands…” at the upper-left portion of the window. From there select “Quick Access Toolbar” to modify the options available. If you want to take the easy way, just select the “Reset” button.


FAQ

Why are my page numbers not printing?

You may have to adjust the margins. Select “File” > “Print” > “Page Setup” (at the bottom) > “Margins“. Try setting all of the margins to 0″.

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Filed Under: Office Tagged With: Word 2016

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Comments

  1. Marko Novak says

    May 6, 2022 at 4:13 am

    I am glad Bill Gates got all his billions and is now enjoin his life where the basic Win and Word are still crap!! This is my problem! On every word page a footer has different description since different content and guess what, even braking page does not solve the problem word just repeats the text on every flowing page. So you need to create every single page in a different word file! And no, problem not solved, since you now can not enter page numbers manually (you could but without design), so now you end with 20 pages all numbered 1. I am so glad for Bill Gates he got his billions after leaving us this unfinished crap of software!!!

  2. christopher shadwick says

    May 16, 2021 at 6:15 pm

    I actually searched Google for how to insert a “page count” field, specifically in my footer. In the free Office programs, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, page number and Page count are separate available fields that can be inserted, but so far I haven’t figured out how to do so in Word 2016, which I have to use at my workplace. I can’t use Open or Libre at work. So,. in my footer, the results end up looking like this: 3/24, ideally, with 3 being the page you’re currently on and 24 being the total number of pages, which adjusts as the number of pages changes. My suspicion is that after inserting a second page number, one might be able to get the intended results of the page count by adjusting the “format page numbers” but I have been messing with it some and have not succeeded yet. If I find the answer on my own, I will try to post a comment here, but if you have suggestions….

  3. kennedy says

    February 22, 2021 at 7:55 am

    want page numbers to start from page 6…how to i go about it

  4. Michelle says

    October 17, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    After adding to my Table of Contents, it pushed it on to a second page which messed up my page numbers. I have checked page breaks, and rebuilt the document from scratch but I can’t get my page numbers to start on page 4 and continue through the rest of the document (I can get pg 4 numbered as page one, and that is it, no 2-19, or I can get my title page and the first page of the ToC numbered as 1 and 2, but that’s not right either. Any suggestions or tips?

  5. Imad says

    June 6, 2018 at 10:54 am

    I did a macro and put a button in the Quick Access Toolbar and it resolve my problem.

  6. Imad says

    June 5, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    is it possible to add a customized button to quick access toolbar to add page numbers to the bottom of the page. This is a repeated command I do for every document and I want a shortcut not to go the regular way.
    Thank you for your time and efforts

  7. JJ says

    August 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    I want to begin with page 4. When I select to start at 4, the following pages begin from 1. So it goes 4, 1, 2, ….
    How can I correct this?

  8. Genie says

    March 26, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    How do I lower the page margin if I added page numbers through “page number and not a footer in WORK 2016?

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