How do I get pages to have Roman numerals? How can I move a table to the left when flushleft won't work?

Question

1. How do I get pages to have Roman numerals?

2. How can I move a table to the left when flushleft won't work?

Answer 1

You can typeset the page numbers in Roman numerals using one of the following two ways. Either use

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\Roman{page}}

or

\pagenumbering{Roman}

in your document preamble. The latter command \pagenumbering is defined as follows:

\def\pagenumbering#1{%
  \global\c@page \@ne \gdef\thepage{\csname @#1\endcsname \c@page}}

This sets the page counter to one globally (\global\c@page \@ne) and then defines the page counter typesetting/output \thepage to be the command sequence formatting of whatever is supplied in argument #1 (Roman in this case).