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What is a Header ?

A header is just text that appears at the top of every page in your document

A footer is just text that appears at the bottom of every page in your document

A header appears at the top of every page and can consist of text or graphics. Footers usually appear at the bottom of every page. These normally contain page numbering, chapter titles etc. You can have different first page (no section break required). Every section has a different header and footer all the way throughout your document. Try to have as few section breaks in your document as possible.

A header is text that is added to the top margin of every page such as a document title or page number.

What is a Footer ?

A footer is the text added to the bottom margin

The footer often contains the page number.

To quickly access a header or footer you can just double click on the grayed out area that contains the header/footer. To quickly close the header/footer just double click on the normal text.

Headers and footers are printed in the top and bottom page margins. (View > Header and Footer)

Apart from having the same header and footer on every page you can have other choices:

1) Different Odd and Even Pages

2) Different First page

3) Different Sections

To change your Header and Footer select (View > Header and Footer). The header or footer is shown with a dotted line around it.

Page numbering can be controlled by selecting (Insert > Page Numbers).

You can easily move between the header and footer by using the switch between header and footer button on the toolbar.

To display the headers and footers of the current page select (View > Header and Footer).

You will be automatically switched to Print Layout view if you are in any other view.

Step 2 - What can you change ?

enter text or images and graphics

Create different headers and footers for different sections of your document

Create a different header and footer for the first page of your document.

Create different headers and footers for odd and even pages

Step 3 - Header and Footer Toolbar

When you display a header or footer this toolbar will be displayed automatically.

This toolbar contains all the commands you need to create your headers and to navigate between them.

To enter text just start typying as if you were in the normal editing window.

You can format your text in the normal way using the Formatting toolbar.

All the editing and formatting commands and selection techniques all work.

If you want to see the footer instead of the header you can easilt switch between the two.

 Switch between Header and Footer - Moves the insertion point between the areas in which you create or change headers and footers.

The default header and footer used Times New Roman font size 12 and left aligns the text.

As default two tabs are defined in both the header and footer which allows you to have left, right and centred text in both your header and footer.

To find out more about the different types of tabs, please refer to ….

The text you type initially will be left aligned. If you press the Tab key once you will be able to position text in the middle of your document and if you press the Tab key again you can place text which is aligned on the right.

The default header and footer also appears on every page of the current document

If you document contains once section, i.e. your document does not contain any section breaks, the header and footer will appear on every page.

The header for every page contains the same information, except any information that has been included as fields, for examples the page numbers.

It is possible to create different headers and footers for different pages in your document and this is all covered later.

Use (File > Page Setup) to specify different headers and footers on odd or even pages or to enter the distance from the top and bottom margins.

Step 4 - Things to Remember

A document can have several different headers and footers

You can quickly insert page numbers (Insert > Page Numbers)