General ⇒ URGENT: Page Style for page numbering

[cern73]

hello everybody
I am writing my Phd thesis and I need to have the page number in the top of the pages and centered
what pagestyle or packages allows me to do that ? I have been stuck with this problem for a while and it is a graduate school absolute requirement for the thesis format as far as page numbering is concerened

pls help ASAP

thnx alot

[meho_r]

Try package fancyhdr for customizing headers and footers.
You can get page numbers in header, centered this way:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[C]{\thepage}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi cern73,

welcome to the board!
Just in case you didn't find the documentation of fancyhdr until now, you may find it on CTAN: here.

You might notice, that some pages will have a different style, like the first page of a chapter. If you need to change that too, you could use \fancypagestyle{plain}{...}, see 7 Redefining plain style in the package documentation.

Stefan

[cern73]

Hello guys
meho_r
the lines you have written are helful in setting the page number in the middle of the bottom of the page
I need the page number to be centered at THE TOP of the page
I am still stuck with this problem and readying the manual of fancyhdr is not helpful
pls help!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi cern73,

consider following small example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\begin{document}
\chapter{One}
\section{one}
text
\newpage
text
\end{document}

It should show what was meant by meho_r and me.

Stefan