How to change page numbering format from “1” to “Page first”?

Question

In document class Article, the normal page numbering, for example is

1

I would like to have the page number look like:

Page first

instead of:

1

How can I do it?

Answer 1

This uses the ordinal string of the ordinal number, i.e. 1st is first, etc, set in the page footer, using fmtcount and fancyhdr.

Do I recommend such a numbering style? No, it does not look nice, but I am not from the Federal Bureau of Aesthetics ;-)

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fmtcount}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
  \cfoot{Page \ordinalstring{page}}
}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{plain}
\blindtext[50]

\end{document}

Answer 2

Like this:

.....
\usepackage{fmtcount}
.....

\begin{document}
 .....
Page\,\ordinal{page}
 .....

Of course, as Christian Hupfer pointed, you normally use such a code when setting the headers/footers formatting with fancyhdr or titleps. Note that fmtcount is language-aware for some languages: english, french, german; italian, portuguese, spanish.

I'll give the titleps way:

\usepackage{babel}
......
\renewpagestyle{plain}
\setfoot{}{\pagename\,\ordinal{page}}{}
\pagestyle{plain}
.....