

We will create a new document and use the rand() function to generate random text in the document so that we have a multi-page document to which we can add headers and footers. Adding different headers and footers to different parts of a document using sections will be explained in another blog post. This post assumes that the document in which headers and footers are being added has no sections/section breaks. To the first, odd and even pages of a document. Let us now see how we can add different headers and footers even pages have page numbers appear on the left and the author name on the right.odd pages have page numbers on the right and the document title on the left.the first page of a document has no header or footer.You can, however, customise the document such that you haveĭifferent headers and/or footers on any one or more of the following:
#HOW TO CHANGE HEADER FOR DIFFERENT PAGES IN PAGES HOW TO#
Read how to add a header and/or footer to a Microsoft Word document.īy default, all pages in a Word document use a common headerĪnd/or footer. Tip: While header/footer is enabled, you can move from one section break to the next by clicking the Next Section button available within the group Navigation, under menu group Header & Footer Tools > Design.A header is the common content that is displayed at the top of each page, while the footer is common content that is displayed at the bottom of each page. After disconnecting header/footer for all the chapters, you can insert unique header/footer content. Repeat the above steps for the rest of the chapters. Click Link to Previous to deactivate which disconnect or de-link the second chapter from the first chapter.ħ. This implies that header/footer of the second chapter is linked to the first chapter.Ħ.

Now on the Design tab, within the group Navigation, you can find the Link to Previous being highlighted. The Header & Footer Tools > Design tab gets activated in the Ribbon.ĥ. To do so, double-click the Header or Footer section (extreme bottom or top of the page) at the beginning of the second chapter. In this step, disconnect the Header/Footer section of the first chapter from the second chapter. Similarly, apply section breaks at the end for rest of the chapters as well.Ĥ. Tip: If you are unable to view the section breaks after applying them in your document, click ‘ Ctrl+Shift+8’.ģ. A section break is inserted at the cursor position. From the Page Breaks drop-down, click Next Page. To insert a section break, on the Page Layout tab, within the group Page Setup, click the drop-down list Breaks.Ģ. See below to learn how to insert Section breaks at the end of each chapter to create separate page sections.ġ. THE PROCEDUREĭivide the document into five separate sections using Section breaks. Suppose your document has five chapters and you need to insert unique header and footer details to each section, the below procedure does exactly that. Then you can assign unique header and footer to each section. Divide the document into different sections using Section break to achieve this. MS Word provides an option to create different headers and footers within the same document.
