Page numbering bottom right for only page

Question

I would like to know, for \documentclass{article}, how I can change the page numbering for only one specific page to be on the bottom right instead of being in the bottom center. Currently, I am using this workaround to get rid off the page numbering (as I am facing the same issue of having a "large" table), though I would like have it being displayed in the bottom right, or maybe even in the right, page margin.

Answer 1

An up-front comment: I think it's perfectly acceptable to suppress the printing of the page number on the pages with overly-tall tables -- as long as there aren't a lot of such pages. To suppress the printing of the page number on an ad-hoc basis, just issue a suitable \thispagestyle{empty} directive for the page in question.

If, instead, you prefer to print the page number at the right-hand edge of the footer line, I suggest you load the fancyhdr package and modify its fancy page style along the lines of the following mock-up example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} % filler text
\usepackage{afterpage} % for '\afterpage' directive

% fancyhdr package provides 'fancy' page style, with lots of
% control over headers and footers:
\usepackage{fancyhdr} 
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[C]{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3] % filler text

\afterpage{% Defer execution until start of next page:
\thispagestyle{fancy} % or '\thispagestyle{empty}'
\begin{table}[p]
\caption{Whatever}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\hline
% body of tabular env.
aaaa & bbbb & cccc \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\clearpage % "flush" accumulated float(s)
} % end of scope of "\afterpage" directive -- page style back to 'plain'

\lipsum[4-10] % more filler text

\end{document}