Bill Gates' MS Office suite has long been one of the most popular complexes of very useful programs, of which Word is considered to be the most popular, for obvious reasons. With its help it is very easy to create, edit and format various text files. Each PC user must be able to perform at least basic actions with this application. So, it is very important to have an idea of how to remove page numbering in Word.
Word 2003
At the moment, many are still using the 2003 version of the program to work with text files. This is largely due to the fact that it is very stable, convenient and very widespread. In addition, it perfectly proves to work on weak computers, which often becomes the reason for choosing it as the main text editor for organizations, offices and so on. In order to understand how to remove page numbering in Word 2003, you need to study the capabilities of the "Headers and Footers" section, which you can access by opening the "View" menu. Here you will need to use one of two subitems - “Footer” or “Header” (depending on where the numbering is located). By selecting the appropriate category, editing will become available, and the user will only have to select and delete any of the page numbers. This will clear the numbering and all other sheets of the document.
Word 2007
In 2007, a new version of the popular editor appeared. At the moment, there are already newer versions of it - 2010 and 2013. However, the differences between them are already insignificant, so it’s enough to know how to remove page numbering in Word 2007, and you can already confidently carry out this procedure in newer applications. And in order to implement it, you need to consistently select "Insert" - "Headers and Footers". In the tab that opens, you need to find the option "Page Number". Clicking on it will lead to the disclosure of the list, among which the user is interested in the lowest point - "Delete numbers ...".
Universal way
There is another fairly simple way, having studied which, the user will understand how to remove page numbering in Word of any version. This algorithm also works in other text applications, so knowing it is very useful. So, in order to clear the document from numbering, just move the mouse cursor over a number with a serial number and double-click the left mouse button. This will make the field allocated for the footers active, and the user can simply delete the number from it, which will automatically clear all other pages of the document from it.
How to remove the first page numbering
Sometimes you need to delete not the entire numbering, but only from the first page. In such cases, the methods described above will not help, since the algorithms for performing this function are implemented using other tools. In Word 2003, you will need to open the "Insert" - "Page Numbers", then uncheck the box next to "Number on the first ...". For Word 2007 and newer versions, you will need to open the “Headers and Footers” menu and select “Designer” or “Layout” (depending on the version of the program). In the tab that opens, you just need to check the box next to the "Special footer for the first ..." field. That's all. Thus, on the title page, the number will no longer be displayed, and on the second, it will be according to the ordinal value and so on.