hey everyone today we're going to be showing you how to add page numbers in google docs maybe
you're working on a document and you need it in the header or the footer at the top or the bottom
it's really easy to do we'll show you exactly how to do that today in google docs but hey if you
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jump right over to my computer here get right into it now i've gone ahead and created this
document here in google docs it's four pages it has a title page with a cute little puppy
it has three more pages of random text that we're going to add page numbers to so first off we're
going to show you how to add the page numbers then we're going to show you how to add formatting move
them into the middle and change the size and what it says kind of the wording to the page number so
that's all really easy to do so the first thing we need to do is go ahead and click on format
here in the top left hand corner go ahead and left click on that you're going to see an option that
comes up that says page numbers you can go ahead and left click on that and that's going to bring
up this page numbers window where you can start making some of the changes to how you want this
set up so the first thing it says is position do you want your page numbers in the header so at the
top or in the footer down at the bottom bottom so we're going to go ahead and select footer i'd like
mine on the bottom and you can choose whatever you like there the next thing is show on first page so
as you remember the document i've created has a title page maybe we don't want a number to show
up on that page so if you would like a number to show up there you can turn that on if you'd like
it to be turned off you can just go ahead and select that and now there won't be a number
on my title page the next thing here is numbering and you can see it says start at one so currently
the way this is set up the title page will be page one the typing will be page two etc and maybe i
want the first page of typing to be page one and not the title page so that's really easy to fix
what you would do is go ahead and change this to zero and that'll make your title page page
zero and your first page of typing page one now from there once that all looks good you can go
ahead and click on apply and it is gonna add page numbers to our pages so you can see the title page
doesn't have anything here in the new footer that it created but down page one is there page two and
page three now that looks awfully plain this text here you can see it's just a one and we're
going to show you how to format that right now so there's a couple different formatting things that
i want to go through the first is adjusting the margin size so if you want that number lowered
or raised a little bit that's quite easy to do so with this footer open go ahead and select on
options here and you can select footer format and that's going to give you the option to adjust the
header and the footer in inches here so right now it's half an inch from the bottom if you wanted it
closer to the bottom you could adjust this to 0.25 and it would move it down a little bit i'm gonna
go ahead and leave that on point five and just hit apply now as i said before this looks awfully
plain maybe we need our name down there or a p it to say page one of three for example that's quite
easy to do so first thing i'm going to mention if i click off of here that footer disappears
you need to just double click on the page number to open up that footer and we can just go ahead
and type in here just as you would in a text editor so just type in page we can type in space
and it's going to add that to our numbering system so if i scroll down you can see now it says page 2
and page 3. and i'll double click on that again maybe we want it to be page one of three so we
would just type in our slash and a three there and again it's going to apply that to all the numbers
so they all say page that one says two of three and this one says three of three now you might be
saying i need my page numbers to be in the middle very easy to do you can just double click on it
so the footer opens up and highlight that and we can use the center align button here at the top
or if you want it to the left you could left align it we're just going to center align it and that's
going to move them all to the middle and maybe you also need your name down here maybe you needed to
say your name i'm gonna put ken page three that's one of three and again if i click off you can
scroll down and it has that on all the documents you can make them bold you can change the font so
let's do that we'll make them bold we can adjust the size we can change the font here maybe we
want it in georgia it's going to change that all for you just as you would in the text editor and
it's that simple to add page numbers and adjust the formatting here in google docs so i hope this
tutorial was able to help you out in adding page numbers to your documents in google docs if it did
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