(Make sure the cursor is outside of the footer area.) On the ribbon, select the Page Layout tab. Volunteering to "pay forward" to return help I've received in the Microsoft user community. To create a new section and disconnect the footers, follow these steps: Insert your cursor at the bottom of the last page of the previous chapter or section. DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter True Then Msgbox 'Section ' & secLoop.Index & ' has. Dim secLoop As Section For Each secLoop In ActiveDocument.Sections If secLoop.PageSetup. Why do you want different headers? You may be able to accomplish what you want using the existing headers/footers without a new section. This example checks each section in the active document for headers and footers that are different on the first page and displays a message if any are found. It works as expected so long as I dont select the same built-in header preset for the following pages. The link to previous button relates to a particular kind of header (header/first-page header/even-page header) in the previous section. I have set a header on the first page and marked the different first page option to make the follow page headers different. For more info on page numbers, see Page numbering in Word. Go to Insert > Page Number and choose a number placement. If all page numbers are deleted, go to Insert > Header & Footer and select Other Pages on the left side. The next page break is a section break, not a page break although it creates a new page.Įvery section in Word has three headers and three footers whether you see them or not. To see your page numbers and confirm deletion of the number from the first page, go to View > Reading View.
#Different first page footer word 2011 mac#
I am not on a Mac but headers and footers work the same in Windows although the controls may be in different places.
And If I delete all the text Im left with the headerĢ and loose my first header. I go the the first page and add text when it flows to the next page but it uses the the header of the first page an the header from page 2 is now the next page (page 3) but remains blank. Notice how the tag identifying the header changes: The tag tells you which header you're editing in this case, it's the Odd Page header.
This step tells Word that you want two sets of headers one for odd pages and one for even pages. On the second page I change the header so linked to previous Place a check mark by the Different Odd & Even Pages box. If you select this box when your First Page Header is active, you will then be able to put one header on the first page and a different header on all the subsequent pages. Deselecting this check box tells Word that you want your header or footer to be different from the header or footer in the previous section of the document. Select the check box for Different First Page. I start creating a header on the first page, close the headers add some text add a page break using "next page". Figure 1 Once the header is active, you will see a Header & Footer Tools Ribbon Tab at the top of the screen. Im trying to create different headers on different pages.