Add headers, footers & page numbers
Add dates, titles, or names to every page in a document using headers and footers. You can do this with Google Docs, but not Google Sheets or Slides.
Add or change headers & footers
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- In the top left, click Insert
Header & page number.
- Choose Header or Footer.
- Enter text into the header or footer.
- To make the first page header or footer different from the other pages, check Different first page header/footer. You can’t add different headers or footers to every page.
To remove the header or footer space, change your margin size.
Insert automatic page numbers & total page count
You can add page numbers and the number of total pages to a document.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- In the top left, click Insert
Header & page number.
- Then choose:
- Page number: Choose where you want the page numbers to go, and whether you want the first page to be skipped.
- Page count: The page count will be added wherever your cursor is placed in the document.
The page numbers or page count will be added automatically.
Add a footnote
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click where you want to insert a footnote.
- In the top left, click Insert
Footnote.
- Type your footnote.
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