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I'm new to TeX and LaTeX, so I might not explain it all that well.

I'm trying to put pagenumbers on each footer in the form "Page X of XX" using fancyhdr. So far I have this:

\cfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

This works fine, except on page 1, which just contains "1".

I suppose this is because the first page is a sort of "special page", since it doesn't contain the header as well.

How do I disable this special first page, so that all pages contain both the header and footer?

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    You should use \cfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}} (note the \ after \thepage) -- otherwise a space will be gobbled. – lockstep Dec 03 '11 at 16:43
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    Or \cfoot{Page \thepage{} of \pageref{LastPage}}. – Schweinebacke Dec 03 '11 at 16:45

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If you make the first page using \maketitle this may execute \thispagestyle{plain}. You may either redefine page style plain (see the fancyhdr manual for this), or simply add \thispagestyle{fancy} after \maketitle:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot{Page \thepage{} of \pageref{LastPage}}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Me}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{fancy}
\end{document}

BTW: If you're using more versatile KOMA-Script class scrartcl instead of standard class article. You may redefine the page style of the page with the in page title head:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fancyhdr,lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot{Page \thepage{} of \pageref{LastPage}}
\renewcommand*{\titlepagestyle}{fancy}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Me}
\maketitle
\end{document}

There are more of those page style commands at KOMA-Script, e.g., \chapterpagestyle for the page with chapter heading (only scrbook and scrreprt). Have a look at the KOMA-Script manual for all these commands.

Schweinebacke
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4

Without saying \thispagestyle:

...
\pagestyle{fancy}
<customizations related to fancyhdr>
\expandafter\let\csname ps@plain\expandafter\endcsname
  \csname ps@fancy\endcsname
...
\begin{document}
...
\maketitle
egreg
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    Maybe a beginner would understand it a little easier without \expandafter and \csname using \makeatletter\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy\makeatother. I know: beginners ofter do not understand why to use \makeatletter but \expandafter together with \endcsname\csname may be one step to high … – Schweinebacke Dec 03 '11 at 16:43
  • I don't really understand why I would do this instead of just writing \thispagestyle{fancy} (as suggested). I suppose there are advantages of doing this, however the other way is fine for me right now. –  Dec 03 '11 at 16:46
  • @Schweinebacke It was just to show a different approach. Definitely not for beginners, I agree. :) – egreg Dec 03 '11 at 16:46
  • @AndersHovgaard It was only to show that it's not necessary. This trick may become handy when using the book class, where each \chapter command issues a \thispagestyle{plain} and it would be cumbersome to write every time \thispagestyle{fancy}. – egreg Dec 03 '11 at 16:48
  • @egreg Okay, that makes sense. Perhaps it will be handy at some other time. –  Dec 03 '11 at 16:51
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    @Schweinebacke \pagestyle{fancy} always uses the current values assigned with the \fancy... commands, so \let\ps@plain\ps@fancy is good as well. – egreg Dec 03 '11 at 16:55
  • @egreg: Oh, yes. I'll remove this nonsense comment of mine. – Schweinebacke Dec 03 '11 at 17:01
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Many packages or styles issue the command \thispagestyle{plain} in \maketitle, so the first page is indeed "special". Try to override this with \thispagestyle{fancy} on title page.

Boris
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