UK TeX FAQ -- question 138

### `\pagestyle{empty}` on first page in LaTeX

If you use `\pagestyle{empty}`, but the first page is numbered anyway, you are probably using the `\maketitle` command too. The behaviour is not a bug but a feature! The standard LaTeX styles are written so that initial pages (pages containing a `\maketitle`, `\part`, or `\chapter`) have a different page style from the rest of the document; to achieve this, the commands internally issue `\thispagestyle{plain}`. This is usually not acceptable behaviour if the surrounding page style is 'empty'.

Possible workarounds include:

- Put `\thispagestyle{empty}` immediately after the `\maketitle` command, with no blank line between them.
- Use the fancyhdr package, which allows you to customise the style for initial pages independently of that for body pages.
- Use the nopageno package, which suppresses all page numbers by affecting the behaviour of page style commands.

`fancyhdr.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr.tar.gz
`nopageno.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/nopageno.sty