Change my permalinks to show the page name

Hi everyone!

I have spent more than 3 hours trying to find an answer to that, but no luck!

I have a website built with WordPress. I’m not going to use it as a blog, so all my pages are static. Because of that I also want to set my permalinks to show the page name as shown in my navigation.

I have tried by using the ‘Custom’ option and adding the ‘/%postname%/’ there. The problem is that it doesn’t pick up the page name as shown in the navigation. I’m not even sure what is that it picks up!

Then I tried to fix it by going to each page. After the change I have an option next to the permalink for ‘Edit’. I clicked the button changed the name to the one I needed, but then when I tried the ‘View Page’ I got a 404 error page.

I run out of ideas.

Please help!!

Thanks in advance!