Preserve page numbering in fancyhdr

Question

I'm using the fancyhdr package to include a header on each page. In order to surpress the section title also being cited in the header of each page, I'm using the command \fancyhf{}, however this also erases all page numbers after the first page. Does anybody know how to get them back in?

See code below

\documentclass[10pt, letter]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[margin=1.250in]{geometry}
\singlespacing
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\rhead{\textcolor{gray}{Mock Draft}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/xcolor

\begin{document}
xxxxx
\clearpage
xxxx
\clearpage
xxxx
\end{document}

Many thanks!

You can just put \thepage into the appropriate header/footer part (\rhead, \cfoot ... etc.) — Alan Munn, Jul 01 '13 at 18:17
With your setting the page number doesn't appear in the first page. Perhaps you have a \maketitle command in your real document. — egreg, Jul 01 '13 at 20:42
@egreg if you comment out \fancyhf{} the first page has the page number. — karlkoeller, Jul 01 '13 at 20:57

karlkoeller · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-01T17:52:12.070

This can be done with the help of the afterpage package.

Before the page where you want the page number begins, put:

\afterpage{\cfoot{\thepage}}

So, your MWE can be rewritten as:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[margin=1.250in]{geometry}
\singlespacing
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\fancyhf{}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\rhead{\textcolor{gray}{Mock Draft}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/xcolor

\begin{document}
xxxxx
\afterpage{\cfoot{\thepage}}
\clearpage
xxxx
\clearpage
xxxx
\end{document}

Note that I deleted letter from the options of the article class. The default is already the letter paper and anyway the right option is letterpaper.

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '13 at 18:19

Using \fancyhf{} clears the header and footer of anything. However, if you wish to insert the page number, just add \thepage to the appropriate location. If you wish to do this conditionally, that is also possible through something like

\fancyhead[L]{\ifnum\value{page}<2\relax\else\thepage\fi}

which will place \thepage int the [L]eft header if its value is at least 2.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 01 '13 at 20:47

2

There's no need of special settings, assuming you don't want the header in the first page; just define the center footer (or any other field you like) to contain the page number.

\documentclass[10pt, letter]{article}

\usepackage[margin=1.250in]{geometry}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{\textcolor{gray}{Mock Draft}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{plain} % not needed if a \maketitle command is issued

xxxxx
\clearpage

xxxx
\clearpage

xxxx

\end{document}

answered Jul 01 '13 at 20:47

egreg

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The OP do wants the header in the first page, but doesn't want the page number there. – karlkoeller Jul 01 '13 at 20:51
@karlkoeller I'm reading the question differently. – egreg Jul 01 '13 at 21:07

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '19 at 14:33

After \begin{document} (or in the document preamble), issue

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}% Roman page numbers

On the page where you want it to change to Arabic numbering, use

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}% Arabic page numbers

The above just modifies the page number/counter printing mechanism. In contrast, using \pagenumbering{arabic} will change the numbering to Arabic but also resets the page counter.

This text is copied from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/56133/110064 (Werner)

Preserve page numbering in fancyhdr

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