How To Customize Page Numbers In Mac Pages 

Mac Pages is by far the most confusing when it comes to page numbers. They need an award for how complicated it is.

AFTER five hours trying to get experts to assist me with this formatting. I really wish I got thank you with more than words. lol, it took me three times watching your video. what persons might not get is the necessary part of placing a section break at the bottom of the first page, then continuing on with the going to the second page and highlighting it. and then removing that clicked button and so forth.

Thank you. Pages is waaayyyyy harder to use than it should be. Glad you are there to help.

I (like Matthew below) am 2 1/2 years into my novel. The HELP and ADVICE from Apple is ONLY for the programers. I wasted hours and six of my last 22 hairs trying to get the stupid numbers to increment. I got halfway through this video and smiled. I will pronto sign up for the PATREON deal and save the other hairs. Thanks Gary.

Bow to you, too! Finally, I found your video to help me with the footers and numbers. Thank you again and again like others who had wasted a lot of hours trying to figure out these "stupid " footers and numbers.

I kneel down, remove my hats and bow to you! THANK YOU!!!!

I am new to Mac and this page numbering was driving me crazy!! This was very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you so so much 🙂

I'm doing my dissertaton layout and really struggling with the layout of my research. Your voice have been a godsend. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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AHHH I FINALLY GOT IT!! THANK YOU!! Please make more videos about Pages, because there is a serious lack of quality instruction on how to do things in this program!! Even though I love using it so much more than Word, it's a shame some times I can't find out how to make certain things work.

I cannot thank you enough for this video. It was truly an answer to my prayers.

THANK YOU! I was frustrated forever trying to figure this out. It seemed so simple (and so important!), and I almost gave up until I found this video! Saved me so much time!

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God bless you😍 I have been searching high and low for a tutorial on this. Thank you so much🙏🏼

I really appreciate for such an informative video. I was struggling with inserting page numbers in the pages of mac and i managed to resolve the problem after watching this video, big thank to you.

Thank you so much, this was super helpful. I can't even explain how much time I spent trying to figure out something so trivial, they really need to make this easier.

I was convinced there was no way to customize page numbers. Thank you so much!

I need help still. I am needing the cover of my book to not be numbered. However, when going to the section part to change the page numbering format to start numbering on the second page, nothing under "page numbering" is highlighted so I can't make changes. I changed between the cover page and the table of contents page from "page break" to "section break' as you suggested but I am still not able to number my pages excluding the cover. Can you help?

Thank you so much! I didn’t understand the section aspect of this. You are making me great at mac apps! No more office for me.

Your videos on Mac OS Pages have been absolutely indispensable for me today as I am starting to write a small book. The videos on sections, table of contents, page numbering and all have been so helpful. Thank you kindly for sharing these videos and I just subscribed. I enjoy your soothing voice as well; it makes it easier to learn.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for making this. Page numbers were the bane of my existence until I saw this video. Turned out all I had to do was show thumbnails and click on one of those to get the page numbers sorted.

I appreciate your help. It reduce a lot of tension from my report. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much . . . your channel is awesome. I keep coming back to learn about page numbering in Pages. Not sure why it has to be so difficult, but I can do it with your help!

From the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU.

THANK YOU! I have been trying to change the page numbers, and failing, miserably! You’re my hero!

THANKS FINALLY A VIDEO WITH ANSWERS!

This should not be this complicated!!! Thank you so much for creating this video, because this very simple task was driving me crazy.

Hey! Thank you so much for the really detailed walkthrough!

Thank you so much for this video. I've been typing the page numbers manually as I couldn't figure out how to use this feature in Pages. Now I know. The key is in creating sections within one document for the different types of numbering I want. This now makes sense to me. Great job Gary for helping me understand how Pages works for pagination. 😋 🙏

im writing an essay and it really helped me a lot

Thank goodness for this video!!! Section break is the key! 😅 Problem solved!

thanks Gary, you saved the day with this!

Thank you so much for posting this! Helped me a ton.

Even though this vid is three years old, thank you. I found it very helpful.

THANK YOU I was literally pulling my hair out trying to figure this out

I have literally been working on a book and been trying to figure this or for months now! Thank you Gary! YOU ARE THE BEST! I fixed my page number while I watched the video.

Thank you so much! I needed this, these videos are really helpful. Pages can be very confusing at times.

Thanks again Gary ... and again, and again, and again, ...

This guy is GREAT! Excellent video instruction!

Big thanks to you, finally I'm able to label page numbers on my essay as I intended haha 😄

Thank you so much. I have been struggling with the addition of cover page and finally I saw this, you're a saviour.

Your video explained how to make changes to my document with accuracy and without a lot of excess verbiage. Thank you.

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Thank You! You made something complex to me into something simple and easy to follow.

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When I turn off "Match previous section" ALL page numbers disappear on the document. Then I put in my starting page number and all pages in the [2nd] section are the same number. When I try to do this process a second time for practice, page numbering in the sidebar is greyed out. Then I wait and go back in, following your video (as I do each time, even getting the above results) and this time it works. :/ ---------- It's 3 weeks later, and page numbers is greyed out for this document, too. What do I do wrong????? Why is it greyed out?? I've been trying all afternoon.

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Literally a God! Much appreciated!

thank you so much!! your video was really helpful, and I had to number my pages starting from the introduction page excluding the cover page and table of contents.. so thank you so much!!! I now know how to do this next time using pages :)))

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thank you soo much for this.............I had been looking for this since ages

I thought I knew this. But I learned something new!

Hi Gary. Much appreciated for the sterling work.

Plsss keep making mac tutorials, as many are shifting to mac from windows in my country

This is amazing thank you!

Thank you for your tutorial. It is very helpful! :3 I was troubled by adding numbers and Roman Numerals in different section for a long time. :

UPDATE/TIP: for me (maybe bc of an update), the "section" part is under documents not format

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Thank you so much - I have finally got it right.

you saved me so much stress my man thank you!!

I'm still confused. I am formatting a book. I have a new section for chapter one and "match previous section" is turned off. (I don't want page numbers in title page etc). When I click for Chapter One, everything in the page number section is grey. Chapter two is fine by the way. Please help!

-thanks for this!

I swear to god, this 3 year old video was more helpful than anything else I found on this topic.

This saved me so much pain thank you so much

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sorry for stupid question, but... is there any quick way to see current page number without numbering the document in mac os pages?

such a life saver!! thank u

Thank you!

You are a great pedagogue and all your videos are greatly appreciated. Thank you. I have a question: can we create a document with both text pages and layout pages using section breaks?

For some reason, after creating a section break, the "first page" of pages document won't show the page number. Like there isn't any box that I can click on. I can see the three boxes on the other pages but not the "first page"... :(

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Thanks once again!

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I keep coming here, this is so confusing lol. Thank you for always saving my ass 4:22

The header or footer doesn't appear on page. How can I activate it? I changed a word document to a page doc, thank you!!

My Pages is different to yours. Is the iCloud a different version?

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Good luck on your thesis, y’all.

Thanks!

Thank You!!

I'm still having issues with numbering... an academic work, where the preliminary pages has to be numbered in the format I, ii, iii,... and the remaining body of the document with 1,2,3...

My headers and footers don’t appear when I tap top or bottom. Do I have them turned off how do I turn them on?

Life saver!

Thank you

Thank you!!!!!

I want to copy the headers and page numbers to be visible so I can put them into another document w/o being grayed out

I created a cover page (new section), and created a Table of Contents on Pge 2. But I can't get the 2nd page to start from 1 even when I click to start at 1 and untick match previous section. I had to delete the page numbers and then apply it again, and then uncheck match previous section. Fixed.

Well, I have tried all ways to get this right. Just like the example I want to start the main document on the third page as page 1. Not sure how I got here but every single page is now page 1. The same happens whether I'm in page layout or word processing. And if start a new section I get more blank pages ... I have tried this before and usually end up printing the title page as a separate document and numbering the main document from page 1. Seems I can't even do that now.

Does Pages give you the option of having page numbers on "outside" corners? I.e. on the left corner of left-side (verso) pages and on the right corner (recto) of right-side pages?

I couldn't get the section option to highlight on the right side panel.

This is for version 13....To skip the number on the title page: Click on the "Document" tab in the toolbar. Now click on the "Section" tab. Under "Section" you will see an option for skipping the first page for page numbers.

Do you know what to do if there isn't an option for 3 spots for the page numbering. ours is only showing 1 (to the left)

awwwwwwwwesome...thank you sir.

As usual, your video is perfect. Not so perfect is my problem with section break. I insert one, the icon is showing it but I cannot do anything with it. On the right side of the document, I see Section but everything seems frozen. What I am doing incorrectly? it seems so simple when you do it.