I am editing a document that was created by someone else. The original document has a custom header/footer and the page numbering was commented out. All I wanted to do was to turn the page numbering on. I figured out how to do that, however, in doing so, the ToC (which also uses the header/footer) now shows page numbering as well. The document has a cover page, a blank page, a title page, then the ToC. Because I don't care to show the header/footer on the first 3 pages, I can use the \thispagestyle{empty} command and thus not show any page numbers. However, I do want to maintain the header footer information (minus the page numbering) in the ToC. FYI, the ToC itself is 6 pages long. The page numbering on the first page of the ToC starts with page 4. How can I suppress the page numbering on all 6 ToC pages while still maintaining the rest of the header/footer information?
[Tex/LaTex] Removing page number from ToC while maintaining header/footer information
header-footerpage-numberingtable of contents
Related Solutions
Put \thispagestyle{empty} at the beginning of your document. This will only affect the first page:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{Top Left}
\fancyhead[C]{Top Center}
\fancyhead[R]{Top Right}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{Bottom Left}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot[R]{Bottom Right}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\begin{document}\thispagestyle{empty}
Lorem ipsum.
\newpage
Lorem ipsum to you, too, brother.
\end{document}
Note that if you use \maketitle, you'll have to put the \thispagestyle{empty} after the \maketitle because \maketitle triggers a \thispagestyle{plain}, which is the standard page style with only the page number at the bottom.
If you want any other page style on your first page, you can put in anything else instead of empty, of course.
Best Answer
If you only want to remove page numbers for the first segment of your document while leaving the rest of your header/footer unchanged, redefine
\thepageto display nothing at the start of your document and restore its original definition after the first segment (and a page break).