How can I format page numbering in MS Word which is 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, etc?

How can I set the page numbers in Microsoft word to have this numbering:

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

NxA

Posted 2013-12-13T15:20:42.030

Reputation: 65

Answers

Right-click a page number and select Toggle Field Codes from the context menu.

You should see something like { PAGE } or { PAGE \ * MERGEFORMAT }. Change it to

{ PAGE \# "00" }

Press F9 to hide the field code and to update the result.

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Dave

Posted 2013-12-13T15:20:42.030

Reputation: 24 199

This helps for PAGE, but with a merged document, { SECTION } will give the number of a document in a batch, which may also be helpful. Also, the NUMPAGES doesn't seem to honor the number formatting rules the way that PAGE does. Always returns a number without the leading zeros. Any idea why? – tresf – 2018-04-12T17:51:05.410

Insert a standard page number
Press Alt+F9 to show field codes
The page number field will show up as either { PAGE } or { PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT } in a grey highlight
Replace this with { PAGE \# 0# }
Press Alt+F9 again to return to field values

Shevek

Posted 2013-12-13T15:20:42.030

Reputation: 15 408

For those who have MacOS, try Fn+Option+F9.

Sinara Lima

Posted 2013-12-13T15:20:42.030

Reputation: 21