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1. On the View menu, click Header and Footer.
2. If you positioned the page numbers at the bottom of the page, click Switch Between Header and Footer on the Header and Footer toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.).
3. Select a page number.

   If you inserted page numbers by using the Page Numbers command on the Insert menu, make sure to select the frame (frame: A container that you can resize and position anywhere on the page. To position text or graphics that contain comments, footnotes, endnotes, or certain fields, you must use a frame instead of a text box.) around the page number.

   How?

   1. Click the page number to make its frame appear.

      

   2. Move the pointer over the frame's border until the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, and then click to see the frame's sizing handles (sizing handle: One of the small circles or squares that appears at the corners and sides of a selected object. You drag these handles to change the size of the object.).

      

      If the handles are not visible, you might have clicked the contents of the frame, not the frame itself.

4. Press DELETE.

Notes

• Microsoft Word automatically removes the page numbers throughout the document. To remove page numbers for part of a document, divide the document into sections (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options. You create a new section when you want to change such properties as line numbering, number of columns, or headers and footers.) and break the connection between them.
• If you created different first-page or odd and even headers or footers, make sure to remove the page numbers from each different header or footer.