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Word allows you to add headers and footers to your document. Headers are nothing more than repeating text that appears at the top of every page of your printed document, whereas footers appear at the bottom of each page. The beauty of headers and footers is that they only have to be defined once, and then Word places them on your printed pages automatically. To define a page header or footer, do the following:
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2011-11-05 11:36:25
awyatt
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Remember that Word allows you to specify headers and footers on a section-by-section basis. Thus, if you want the headers and footers to change, you need to insert section breaks into your document and then make the changes in the headers or footers for each section.
2011-11-05 11:28:33
P.G. van Dijk
Re: ‘Creating Page Footers and Headers’, WordTip # 0251, 2011-11-05
On first view this looks like a useful gadget. But when you look closer you see problems.
Many of my documents have a title page. In that case I want to keep the last page blank. That means that often the second page will also be blank. On those pages you cannot have headers or footers at all, not even page numbers. When printing the document you can work around this problem by printing the first and last sheets separately, suppressing the headers and footers. Awkward, but it works. Of course, this will not work for the original digital copy.
In a long document it would be useful to display the chapter titles in the headers. I see no way to achieve this at all.
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