\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. This 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; Hence, 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 fancyhdr.sty, which allows you to customise the style for initial pages independently of that for body pages. It is available in macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr
• Use nopageno.sty, which suppresses this behaviour. It is available in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/nopageno.sty