[Tex/LaTex] Page numbering in a bold format

Question

I have been trying to put the page numbers in bold throughout the whole document but i cannot seem to get it right. I tried to renewcommand the pagenumbering command but it did not work. \renewcommand{\pagenumbering}{\bfseries}.

I was also looking in other webpages but could not find it. Can someone please let me know how is this properly done?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

(My previous answer was probably wrong, so I deleted it and am giving this one, which is better.)

Andrew Swann is absolutely right that we need a minimal working example; but let's see one way you could get this done. Assuming you're using the article class, and your page number is centered in the footer:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\cfoot{\textbf{\thepage}}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

This will do what you want, but it will leave page numbers elsewhere alone. It will also work through commands that change the page number's format, if you're using a document class which has such commands, such as book.

The fancyhdr documentation is quite good, and will give you a great deal more information about how else you can format running headers and footers.