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Microsoft Word Help - Headers & Footers

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Inserting Headers & Footers

To insert a header or footer into a document, follow these steps:

1.	Choose View from the menu bar.
2.	Select Header and Footer. A dotted area opens up upon the top of your document. A new toolbar ― Header and Footer ― appears on the screen.
3.	Type your header in the box, or if you want to go to the footer, click the Switch Between Header And Footer button on the Header and Footer toolbar, and type your footer.
	Switch between Header and Footer button
While you're typing away in the Header or Footer box, you can call on most of the commands on the Standard and Formatting toolbars. You can change the texts font and size, click an alignment button, or paste text from the Clipboard. You can even add a border to the header or footer.
4.	To insert page numbers with your header and footer, click the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar.
	Insert Page Numbers button
5.	Once you're done, click the Close button on the Header and Footer toolbar.
	Close button

Q: Why is my Header and Footer grey? Don't get scared now! This is Word's way of showing you that this is the header and this is the footer. You can double-click in the grey header or footer (in Print Layout View) to go back into Header & Footer mode. To see how the finished header and footer fits with the rest of your document, click the Print Preview button to get a good overview! Microsoft Word help in Print Preview with this task.

Button	What it does...
	Opens a drop-down menu with options for inserting information about the document, including when it was last saved and printed, and who created it.
	Inserts a page number.
	Inserts the number of pages of the entire document.
	Opens the Page Number Format dialog box so you can choose a format for the page number in the header or footer.
	These buttons inserts the current date and the current time.
	Opens the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog box so that you can tell Word that you want a different header and footer on the first page of the document, or that you want different headers and footers on odd and even pages (you can use this feature if you're printing on both sides of the page).
	Shows or hides the text on the page so that you can see what the header or footer looks like in relation to the text.
	Tells Word that you don't want this header or footer to be the same as the previous section of the document. When this button is pressed down, the header or footer is the same as the header or footer in the previous section of the document and the Header or Footer box reads Same As Previous. To enter a different header or footer for a section, click this button and enter the header or footer. To change headers or footers, you must divide a document into sections.
	Switches between the header and the footer type area.
	Shows the header or footer in the previous and next sections of a document that has more than one section.
	This button allows you to exit the Header and Footer box.

Removing Headers & Footers

To remove a header or footer, follow these steps:

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