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I'm inserting an empty page with page number the following way:

\newpage
\thispagestyle{plain}
\mbox{}

Now, my header and footer are also showing up in the empty page, but I defined my header and footer with use of the \fancyhead and fancyfoot within an \fancypagestyle{plain}. How, do I get rid of the header and footer while inserting an empty page?

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    did you try \thispagestyle{empty}?
    – MaestroGlanz
    May 31, 2016 at 7:53
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    I think it's \thispagestyle{empty}. But I don't know how it works with fancy.
    – sirjofri
    May 31, 2016 at 7:54
  • Yes, the \thispagestyle{empty} works fine to get an empty page, but I need the page number as well. I don't want to do this manually.
    – Pim
    May 31, 2016 at 8:13
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    your comments don't seem to match your question. The footer normally contains the page number so if you want the page number you want to use a page style that has the number, such as the original plain page style. if you have redefined plain to be a style that has additional things that you do not need, it is hard to give any advice other than don't do that, since you have shown no code.
    – David Carlisle
    May 31, 2016 at 8:53
  • See What makes a good MWE meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/3343/90087
    – A Feldman
    May 31, 2016 at 12:53

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You can always define your own pagestyles. See this MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}


\fancypagestyle{emptyhead}{                 % Define a new pagestyle
    \fancyhf{}                              % Clear header/footer
    \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}                 % Set pagenumber in footer
    \fancyfoot[R]{(No header on this page)}
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
    \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{.4pt}
}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{                     % Redefine style "plain"
    \fancyhf{}
    \fancyhead[C]{Header for plain-style pages}
    \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
    \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{.4pt}
}

\pagestyle{fancy}                           % Define fancy pagestyle for common pages
\lhead{Author's name}                       % Set left header
\chead{}                                    % Clear center header
\rhead{Document title}                      % Set right header
\lfoot{}                                    % Clear left/center footer
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage}                            % Put pagenumber in right footer
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{.4pt}

\begin{document}

\section{Hocus}\thispagestyle{plain}
\lipsum[1-10]
\clearpage

\section{Pocus}\thispagestyle{emptyhead}
\lipsum[11-20]
\clearpage

\section{Bogus}\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[21-30]
\end{document}

The first page of section 1 uses \thispagestyle{plain}, with a special header in the center and the page number in the right footer. The first page of section 2 is set with \thispagestyle{emptyhead}, with no header and the page number in the center of the footer (which is what \pagestyle{plain} would usually look like. The first page of section 3 has neither header nor footer (\thispagestyle{empty}). All other pages use the normal \pagestyle{fancy}.

Is that what you wanted to do?

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