+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LaTeX Note 001 jodys@helluin.org | | Headers and Footers 9/07/2010 | | v0.01 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ The basic styles don't provide much control. So, \usepackage{fancyhdr} % Use fancyhdr package \pagestyle{fancy} % Declare fancy style \fancyhf{} % Clear headers and foots \lhead{} % Left header \chead{} % center header \rhead{} % right header \lfoot{} % Left footer \cfoot{} % Center footer \rfoot{} % Right footer Some things you can put into the headers/footers \thepage % Current page number. In some cases page numbers are wanted on the title page. Title pages normally declare \thispagestyle{plain} which takes precedence over our own page style declared above. However, we can redefine the "empty" page style to have page numbers or whatever else we wish for headers and footers. \fancypagestyle{plain}{ \fancyhf{} \fancyhead[C]{\thepage} \fancyfoot[C]{WHATEVER WE WANT!} } In case we are not use \maketitle, we need to manually declare \thispagestyle{plain} in the title page \begin{title} \thispagestyle{plain} % Title page goes here.... \end{title} Title pages, table of contents and other exceptional pages have their own page numbering counters. This means that the title page will show page 1, but also the beginning of the main body. You can manually override the main bodies page number to get things incrementing correctly. \setcounter{page}{2}