Removing page numbers

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Did this document start life as a Word document? I've seen that mentioned several times in this forum. I found this thread, but couldn't find any recent ones with a solution (if there was one). Since the search terms I used was "Word AND page AND number" the search engine returned every post with all of those words or variations of them. You could try the search looking for posts older than 90 days.

This is exactly the same problem that I am having with several Word documents that I am working on at the moment.

If someone has an answer I would be happy to hear it because nothing I've found the last couple of days has provided an answer.

I hope you have better luck.
-Kirk.

Hi M.,

This issue has been a curiosity to me too. I believe that the answer is illusive because of the complexity of the mechanisms. It seems to me that that whenever I have encountered this problem, the persistent content was a Master Object. To begin, Format > Advanced > Make Master Objects Selectable. One would think that if this is the solution, it would be a simple matter to now select the tenacious item and delete it. The problem, I think, is that sometimes the object while now supposedly selectable is still not accessible.

This Master Object can hide behind the Header box, as though the Header was a solid glass wall. Deselecting the Header function, in the Document Inspector will give you access, but it will also irretrievably delete your Header Content. A better way, I have found, is to change the header Margin figure in the Document Margins Pane of the Document Inspector.

Once you have moved the Top Header, or whatever else might be sharing the space, off the persistent page number, you can click on the page number Graphic and hit Delete. Now you can put your Header Margin back where it belongs, and you're done.

Jerry

Thanks a lot! It did it for me.

I love you, Jerrold Green!
Format> Advanced > Make Master Objects Selectable.
Select page number. Delete. Page number gone.
I can see why DELETE Page Number can't appear in the INSERT menu. But I don't see why they can't incorporate an Insert> NO page numbers command.
You saved the day, Jerry.

That did the trick for me.
Parts of a Word document had been copy pasted into a Pages document and this blasted non-selectable page number thing had become inserted.

Your solution did the trick exactly as you described.

Thanks

The page number from MS Word was an object and not "just" a number that was inserted. Behave diffrently in the document.

I would just like to throw in my "Thank you" also to Jared Green.

This little issue has been irritating me since I switched to Apple a couple of years ago and reformatted all my docs to Pages.

This work-around works perfectly! Thanks again.

Kevin