On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Footer.

Under the Headers and footers group, select Different odd and even AND Different first page.

In the Page Setup dialog box, click the Layout tab.

On the Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the dialog box launcher.

This text will be displayed on the footer of all pages.Įnabling Different Headers and Footers for First, Odd, and Even Pages

Add some text to the footer on any page.

Note that the footer section is labelled as Footer. If you change the footer text on one page, the footer will change on all pages. The length of the document will be 6 pages.īy default, all pages of the document will have a common header and/or footer on all pages. This will generate 60 paragraphs of 4 lines each. 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: 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.

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.

Setting word header on first page only