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I am presently working on an application that very specifically requires me to have page numbers in the top left hand corner. As I do not have Word on my present computer, and am most familiar with Docs, I would like to use it for this application.
Unfortunately, the only options Docs seems to allow me off of the "Insert" tab are top and bottom right hand corners for page numbers. Is there a hack or app that grants a way around this? Or am I just missing something?
I just found a possible work-around for the original question. It isn't elegant, but it may work.
In each of your section headings (ie, in the text, which are then used to generate the TOC automatically), add a tab and the page number. You have to type in the page number manually, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't pay to get too fancy with placement, adjusting tab stops, etc.
Now, if you refresh the TOC, you get the page number separated from the heading by a tab. (When I tried to adjust the tab stops in the TOC, I got various errors.)
If you don't want the page numbers to appear next to the headings in the body of the document, highlight them there and change the text color to the background color of the document (usually white). The numbers are still there, and will still show up in the TOC, but you can't see them elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the page numbers won't flow as you edit the document, so do this just before final publication.
Again, not elegant -- not in appearance or in process -- but if you must have physical page numbers in a printed document, it should do the trick.
Files > Page setup...
then choose "Page color".
Best Answer
There are three ways to move page numbers in Docs. First, you need to click in the header or footer containing the page number. Then:
Combining these can place the number pretty much anywhere.