How to suppress page number?

Question

I've made myself custom title-page, put it in separate .tex file and when I input it, it is numbered with 1. The very next page is numbered with 1 also, and page-number increases on the following pages. Main file looks like this

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage{./mystyle}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\input{./titlepage.tex}
\input{./text.tex}
...
\end{document}

How do I suppress page-number on that title-page? (Why \thispagestyle{empty} doesn't work?) edit: Here's the title-page:

\begin{titlepage}
    \begin{center}

        % Upper part of the page
        \textsc{\large Uni}\\[0.1cm]
        \textsc{\Large Faculty}\\[2.8cm]
        \textsc{\Large Sensors}\\[0.1cm]
        {\Large Paper}\\[0.25cm] 

        % Title
        \HRule \\[0.3cm]
            { \Large \bfseries Occupancy}\\[0.3cm]
            { \huge \bfseries Tribos}\\[0.05cm]
        \HRule \\[0.05cm]

        % Author and supervisor
        \begin{center} \large
            \emph{Student:}\\
            An \textsc{Ant}
        \end{center}
        \vspace{1.8cm}
        \begin{spacing}{0}
            \tableofcontents
        \end{spacing}
        \vfill
        % Bottom of the page
        {\large \today}

    \end{center}
\end{titlepage}

@Yiannis Lazarides As a matter of fact, it actually did turn of page-numbering, but I was unable to return it afterwards. — , Dec 18 '10 at 19:16
@everyone_with_same_problem: this fixed the problem - 1. add \pagenumbering{gobble} before title input 2. add \pagenumbering{arabic} after title input 3. add \pagestyle{empty} inside titlepage.tex. This could probably be generalized. — , Dec 18 '10 at 19:32

score 604 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '10 at 19:07

604

You could use \pagenumbering{gobble} to switch off page numbering.

To switch it on afterwards, use \pagenumbering{arabic} for arabic numbers or alph, Alph, roman, or Roman for lowercase resp. uppercase alphabetic resp. Roman numbering.

answered Dec 18 '10 at 19:07

Stefan Kottwitz

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I'm using \pagenumbering{gobble}, but I'm having some problems with "already used pagenumber", I'm getting the warning message destination with the same identifier (name{page.}) has been already used, duplicate ignored<to be read again>... and it seems to be complaining on the second page in the document. How can I fix that? I'm also using the hyperref package. – StrawberryFieldsForever Apr 26 '13 at 13:50
8

After switching it on again, page numbering restarts at 1. – Matthias Feb 10 '17 at 13:21
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How about keeping the page numbering without displaying it, so if the first page has gobble then the second page has the number 2? And how about resetting page numbers? – Someone Apr 28 '20 at 14:35
how to restart the numbering in numbers (1,2,3....) ? – sawan kt Jul 27 '21 at 05:40
1

You can set the pagenumbering again with \setcounter{page}{5} – GURKE Feb 28 '23 at 08:09

score 74 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 18 '14 at 17:56

74

I had the exact same problem. What worked for me was \thispagestyle{empty} after inputting the title page, not before.

edited Jul 18 '14 at 17:56

Werner

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answered Jul 18 '14 at 17:16

Jeremy

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This will remove both the header and footer and page numbering. – Werner Jul 18 '14 at 17:28
5

Which is what is required. – Peter Flynn Jun 22 '15 at 20:28
3

The utter simplicity of this answer is a point in its favor, even if there are contexts where the other answers are preferable. – Mars Jan 02 '18 at 22:40
1

I'm using LaTeX for a resume, which is one page long. This is the only answer that gets rid of the page number without including another blank page after. – sawyermclane Jun 20 '18 at 21:19

chl · Answer 3 · 2010-12-18T21:14:31.117

26

Maybe try to enclose your title page (or the input file) into a \begin{titlepage} and \end{titlepage}; and put \pagenumbering{arabic} just before your main body starts.

edited Dec 18 '10 at 21:14

answered Dec 18 '10 at 18:56

chl

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Thanks, that’s literally all that’s needed, and helped me. Commit – mirabilos Nov 15 '14 at 18:50
+1. This one slipped passed me ... – ajrlewis Jul 18 '19 at 23:21

score 24 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 07 '15 at 16:31

24

\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{titlepage}
\newpage

worked for me.

edited Jan 07 '15 at 16:31

darthbith

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answered Jan 07 '15 at 16:30

Jane

265

8

And what does "worked for me" mean? That could be all or nothing ... Can you please explain? – Mensch Jan 07 '15 at 17:17
7

It should be noted that titlepages are empty by default. – Johannes_B Apr 21 '15 at 10:17
4

It should probably be noted that \maketitle within the titlepage environment is wrong and the \newpage is not needed. – Johannes_B Aug 12 '17 at 12:28

score 8 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 11 '20 at 14:18

8

Yiannis Lazarides' comment deserves its own answer: Start with

\pagestyle{empty}

before the title page material and

\pagestyle{plain}  % or whatever page style you desire

after the title page material.

edited Feb 11 '20 at 14:18

Mico

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answered Feb 09 '20 at 21:59

Skippy le Grand Gourou

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The original query was about suppressing the display of the page number on a specific page -- the title page, to be exact -- while not affecting the display of page numbers on other pages. Please clarify in which sense your posting addresses this objective. – Mico Feb 10 '20 at 06:46
@Mico Or the original query was about suppressing the display of the page number on a specific subdocument, which makes this answer relevant. As a matter of fact, according to his own comment OP's fix was to actually combine the accepted answer with this one. But if you feel it requires clarification, feel free to edit it, it's community wiki. ;) – Skippy le Grand Gourou Feb 11 '20 at 13:44
I suppose that it's not entirely wrong to call the titlepage of a document a "sub-document". :-) (That's not the term the OP used, though...) I've taken you up on the offer to apply some edits to your answer. – Mico Feb 11 '20 at 13:54
Since OP specified the titlepage had its own .tex file, I guess it's technically correct at least server-side… – Skippy le Grand Gourou Feb 11 '20 at 14:02

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