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Someone asked how you can get the page number to automatically appear on the pages of your research paper … here’s how.

In Word, go to View, Headers & Footers, then a little menu window thing pops up. 

BEFORE you start typing anything in, if you want this page number and/or your name to appear on the right hand side CLICK the right justify button (you know, it’s next to the center button).  Type your name if you want it to appear on each page.  Now click “insert auto text” on your little menu bar window thing and click “page”.  OR, slowly move your mouse over each little icon and you’ll get to one that’s for page.  Click that one to add the page number to your header.

Now, don’t get upset.  If you don’t want those little dashes in front of and behind your number just backspace them right out of the picture. 

Look at where your name is.  Get in front of the page number, put your cursor in front of the page number and backspace to get rid of all the space between your name and the page number. Hit the spacebar if they’re too close together.  Get it just like you want it and then click CLOSE.

If you forget to click the right justify button before you type your info in, just put your cursor in FRONT of your info and click the right justify button.

If you need to change something in that “header” just double click right up there on top of your header (page number or name, whatever you typed up there) … or anywhere along the top near your header … and that header window menu thing will appear.

You did it.

FOOTER.  If you need something to appear at the bottom of your page, when you first get the header/footer menu bar window thing, scroll across all those little icons on it and one will say “switch between header and footer” or something to that effect.  That’s what you need.  Click it.  Now you’re creating a footer. 

 Hope this helps someone,

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