When you add a header or footer, Google Docs now shows this option on the first page: "different first page header/footer". Click the checkbox and you can add a different header or footer.
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The "page number" feature from the "Insert" menu lets you start page numbering on the second page.
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"This means that you can follow academic formatting guidelines for first page headers and footers (e.g. MLA, CMS, APA)," says Brian Levee, Google Docs Product Manager.
{ Thanks, August Valera. }
Thanks for adding this, but if you choose to not show the page numbers on page 1, it starts numbering page 2 as "1", and sometimes people want page 2 to be page "2".
ReplyDeleteCan you add an option to leave the numbering off page 1, but start page 2 with the number 2?
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