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         <title id="tit">Inserting Page Numbers in Footers</title>
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      <bookmark_value>pages; numbers and count of</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>page numbers; footers</bookmark_value>
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      <paragraph id="par_id8230842" role="paragraph">You can easily insert a page number field in the footer of your document. You can also add a page count to the footer, for example, in the form "Page 9 of 12"</paragraph>
      <h2 id="hd_id7867366">To Insert a Page Number</h2>
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            <paragraph id="par_id3150508" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Insert - Header and Footer - Footer</emph> and select the page style that you want to add the footer to.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3150534" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Insert - Field - Page Number</emph>.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph id="par_id3153155" role="paragraph">If you want, you can align the page number field as you would text.</paragraph>
      <h2 id="hd_id2988677">To Additionally Add a Page Count</h2>
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            <paragraph id="par_id3155532" role="listitem">Click in front of the page number field, type <item type="literal">Page</item> and enter a space; click after the field, enter a space and then type <item type="literal">of</item> and enter another space.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph id="par_id3155554" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Insert - Field - Page Count</emph>.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id21715629004389">Title pages are a common way to create documents with different page numbering schemes.</paragraph>
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