UK TeX FAQ -- question label emptynum

### I asked for “empty”, but the page is numbered

If you use `\``pagestyle{empty}` and you find some pages are numbered anyway, you are probably encountering one of the style decisions built into the standard LaTeX classes: that certain special pages should always appear with `\``pagestyle{plain}`, with a page number at the centre of the page foot. The special pages in question are those (in article class) containing a `\``maketitle`, or (in book and report classes) `\``chapter` or `\``part` commands.

The simple solution is to reissue the page style after the command, with effect for a single page, as, for example (in article):

>     \maketitle
>     \thispagestyle{empty}

or (in book or report)

>     \chapter{foo bar}
>     \thispagestyle{empty}

A similar technique doesn’t work for a book or report `\``part` command pages. For that, and for other detail, take look at “getting rid of page numbers”.

This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=emptynum