Remove footer (page number) in documents that are one page long

Question

When I create a document that has but one page, I see no reason to have a page number in the footer. I would like to remove this. There is, however, apparently no such equivalent to thispagestyle{plain}, which removes the header on the first page. I would have thought thispagestyle{headings} would do the trick, but no.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,fancyhdr}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \fancyhead[L]{My name}
    \fancyhead[R]{My affiliation}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{headings} % this removes my header and puts the page number there
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

@azetina I only want to remove the footer, not the header. – Sverre Nov 11 '13 at 21:13 — Sverre, Nov 11 '13 at 21:13

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '13 at 21:15

3

Adding \fancyfoot{} removes the footer:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,fancyhdr}
    \pagestyle{fancy}
    \fancyhead[L]{My name}
    \fancyhead[R]{My affiliation}
    \fancyfoot{}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

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answered Nov 11 '13 at 21:15

azetina

28,884

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 21:37

After \pagestyle{fancy} it's usually better to say \fancyhf{} that clears all the six fields, so that you can decide what to put in each one. If you don't specify \fancyfoot, nothing will go in the footer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{My name}
\fancyhead[R]{My affiliation}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 22:35

1

If you don't want to load any package to do this you can just redefine the footers.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\makeatletter
\def\@evenfoot{}
\def\@oddfoot{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}

answered Nov 11 '13 at 22:35

Sigur

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Remove footer (page number) in documents that are one page long

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