Open your document in Microsoft Word. Make sure you are at the very top of the document, on the title page. Double-click the top part of the title page. The header editing box will appear.

It's easy to add page numbers, headers, footers, title pages and a table of contents to your Word documents. You just have to know where to look.

Figure D Change the format for the page numbers in the front matter. The title page, page 1, still displays a page number, I, and we want to turn that off.

You can have page numbers at the top or bottom of the page, and there are a variety of styles to choose from (top-right corner, bottom-center, et cetera). Here's how to add page numbers in Word ...

That makes it useful for adding information like the document title and author, or adding page numbers or other information. You might also insert a hyperlink in your Word document to a web page ...

The easiest way to make this change is to add a single-level numbering scheme to the built-in heading style used for the chapter titles. The demonstration Word file has four chapters.