Headers and Footers

Word headers and footers, added to the top or the bottom of your page layout, can be a great finishing touch. This is especially true if the document is intended to print or to conver to a PDF file. Word provides many tools you can use to create and manage headers and footers. The tips in this category will help you figure out exactly how to achieve just the look and functionality you want.

Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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Copying Headers and Footers
Need to get headers and footers from one document to another? You can use the steps in this tip to help make quick work of the task.

Deleting Headers and Footers
When working with existing documents, you may need to delete a header or footer previously created. Here's how you can do it in the easiest manner.

Formatting Headers or Footers Across Many Sections
Need to adjust all the footers or headers in a document that uses lots of them? It's easy to do if you understand how the footers and headers are related to each other.

Specifying a Starting Page Number
Word normally numbers pages in a document starting at one and extending as far as the number of pages you have. If you want, you can adjust a starting page number for any section in your document. It's easy to do, as explained here.