How to skip numbering of a specific page

Question

I would like to know how to remove the numbering for a specific page. I found several ways to do this, the simplest of which is \thispagestyle{empty} from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/111570/201720.

Now, this command does indeed hide the number of a given page, however, LaTeX still counts that page. To clarify what I mean, say my document contains 5 pages. What I want to do is to hide the number of page 4 PLUS have LaTeX not counting that page, such that on page 5, the number 4 shows up, not 5.

Put another way, I want the pages to be numbered as:

1
2
3
no page number here
4

Maybe also have a look at the answer at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/546044/how-to-change-page-numbers-within-a-latex-document, you could probably define a "switch empty" . Might be that this is also working in case you want a number of pages without number, but you don't know the number of pages. (Note: I didn't test anything, is just a guess) — albert, May 25 '20 at 08:47

DG' · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-25T19:29:03.243

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You can decrease the page number (in addition to \thispagestyle{empty}) with the following command:

\addtocounter{page}{-1}

edited May 25 '20 at 19:29

answered May 25 '20 at 09:29

DG'

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Wouldn't it also be useful to have \thispagestyle{empty}? – barbara beeton May 25 '20 at 18:35
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@barbarabeeton – Sure, in addition to that. I thought the OP figured that out already. But I can add it, too. – DG' May 25 '20 at 19:28

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '20 at 20:05

You can automate the process of removing the page on page "four":

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum,fancyhdr}

\newcommand{\setpage}{%
  \ifnum\value{page}=4
    \addtocounter{page}{-1}% Reduce page number by 1
    \global\let\setpage\thepage% Update \setpage to be equivalent to \thepage
    % Also, don't print the page number
  \else
    \thepage% Default page number
  \fi
}

\fancypagestyle{skippagefour}{%
  \fancyhf{}% Clear header/footer
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove header rule
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% Remove footer rule
  \fancyfoot[C]{\setpage}% Centre page footer
}
\pagestyle{skippagefour}

\begin{document}

\sloppy\lipsum[1-50]

\end{document}

How to skip numbering of a specific page

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