Page no positioning in latex using fancyhdr package.

 We can manually position the page no. in LaTeX using fancyhdr package. To position page no. (or any other thing) in header or footer there are total six position options, left, right and centre in header and footer. The corresponding commands are given in the table bellow

position fancy head command
left header \lhead
right header \rhead
centre header \chead
left footer \lfoot
right footer \rfoot
centre footer \cfoot

And the page no inserted by the command \thepage. Now suppose I want to insert page no in the left side of each page I can use following code: 


\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}%just some package not necessary to
\usepackage{graphicx}%test this page no.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
 \pagestyle{fancy} %declaring page style 
 \lhead{\thepage} %page no inserted in left side of header 
 \chead{} 
 \rhead{} 
 \lfoot{} 
 \cfoot{} 
 \rfoot{} 
\author{Apurba~Paul} 
\title{Inserting page no in custom position in \LaTeX using fancyhdr} 
\begin{document} 
\maketitle 
The content of the main body 
\end{document}

Instead of \lhead you can insert the page no command in any position. Also you can use same command to insert any information in header or footer (for example: Author name, chapter name etc.). Also header this will insert an horizontal line after header. To remove it you can use \renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0pt}.
Also if you want page no should come in left side in even page and right side in odd page then you can specify that using the following command instead of above,


\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}

Hope this information will be helpful

Cheers
APaul

Sources:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10043/page-number-position
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fancyhdr
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