How to Number Pages in Google Docs

Finished writing your dissertation or assignment on Google Docs? Great. But it’s not quite ready yet. Page numbers are essential for a well-formatted document, especially for your table of contents. If you are here, you are probably trying to figure out how to number those pages in Google Docs. So, without any further ado, here’s how to number pages in Google Docs.

How to Add Page Numbers in Google Docs

You can easily insert page numbers, you can use the Google Docs website or the mobile app.

Method 1: Using Google Docs App on Android and iPhone

The following set of steps will be more or less the same, whether you are on an Android device or an iPhone.

1. Launch the Google Docs app and open a document you want to edit. Start editing the document and in the top panel, tap on the plus + sign.
2. From the list of options, select Page number.

3. Choose from the four different style formats that appear — header, header (leave first page), footer, and footer (leave first page).

Method 2: Add Page Numbers on Google Docs Website

When using the Google Docs website, you can add page numbers inside a document using the following steps:

1. Head over to Google Docs (website) in a browser and open the document you want to add numbers to.
2. In the top toolbar, click the Insert tab, and hover over Page numbers.
3. Select the desired style of page number formats just like on the app.

4. You can also click on More options and specify from which page the numbers should begin. Once done, click on Apply.

How to Delete Page Numbers in Google Docs

Google Docs makes it easy to delete the page numbers you have added to a document. However, you can’t retrace your steps to delete them. The process is a bit different:

Method 1: Using Google Docs App on Android and iPhone

You can easily delete page numbers in a document on Google Docs app. Here’s how:

1. Considering you have the document open, tap on Page number.
2. Hit the Backspace key on your keyboard to delete it.

This should delete the page number from your document. You’d need to do it manually on each page, which could be time-consuming, but that’s the only way you can roll on the Google Docs app.

Method 2: Delete Page Numbers on Google Docs Website

Here’s how you can delete page numbers for a document on Google Docs on a PC.

1. Considering you’ve already opened a document and added page numbers, click on the Options dropdown.

2. The click on Remove header/footer option. This should delete all your page numbers.

While that concludes this guide, you will have to mess around in Google Docs quite a bit to understand its ins and outs better. For example, you can further align the positioning of your page numbers, make them start from a specific page like in the case of a dissertation, and do a lot more.

Also, I’d always recommend using Google Docs from the browser as the mobile version is not at all convenient. Moreover, it lacks way too many advanced features that come in handy for me from time to time.

With that being said, I hope this guide is what you were looking for. If you have any other related queries, do take to the comments section down below.