Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Suppressing Headers or Footers.
Many people who come to Word from a WordPerfect environment are curious as to how you can suppress headers and footers in your document. While WordPerfect makes this very easy, the method used in Word is much more flexible.
Word allows you to create headers and footers for each section of your document. Thus, if you have eight sections in your document, each section can have its own header and footer. By default, headers and footers for any new sections are the same as the section just before it. If you want to suppress the header or footer in a particular section of your document, follow these steps:
Now, if you preview your document by choosing Print Preview from the File menu, you can see there are headers or footers in each section except the one where you deleted them.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (265) applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Suppressing Headers or Footers.
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2015-01-22 23:31:26
Greg Kopp
I want to use a header for my business letterhead, but is don't know how to get it to appear on the first page only! Can anyone explain how to do this?
2012-04-06 08:54:40
How to suppress footer on 1st page only.
How create micro to insert into header/footer
2012-01-26 11:46:17
Allen
Brian, that could very well be. You see, this tip (as it says) is for older versions of Word. If you want a version of this tip that works for your version of Word, click the link at the end of the text.
2012-01-26 11:33:36
Brian McPherson
This help doesn't help. I assume that it is because I have Office 2007.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 
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