The information you insert in any header or footer area appears on every page in a document unless you set different headers and footers for different sections. True The layout tab in the page set up dialog box is used to change the orientation of pages in a document.
- In Microsoft Word, select the text and/or graphic that you wish to reuse. Under the Insert menu, click on Quick Parts, and select Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery. Give the selection a name and also a description, if you like. Under Options, you can also choose how the selection will be inserted in the document. Next, click on OK.
- Choose View→Header and Footer from the menu bar. Click within either the Header or Footer area. Your cursor will be at the left. Press Tab once or twice to move to the center or right, if desired.
How to add chapter title to header or footer in Word document?
Normally, you can insert the header or footer with document path, name quickly and easily in a Word file. But, have you ever tried to insert the chapter title to header or footer, so that, the content of the header or footer is depended on what chapter the page is in. This article, I will talk about how to solve this job in Word document.
Add chapter title to header or footer in Word document
To insert each chapter title to header or footer, you can use the Quick Parts feature to achieve it, please do as this:
1. Firstly, you should apply a paragraph style to the chapter title that you want to insert as header or footer, in this example, my chapter title is styled as Heading 1, see screenshot:
2. Then click Home > Header / Footer, and choose one header or footer style, see screenshot:
3. And then, click Quick Parts > Field under the Design tab, see screenshot:
4. In the popped out Field dialog box, do the following operations:
- (1.) Select Links and References from the Categories drop down list;
- (2.) In the Field names list box, please choose StyleRef option;
- (3.) And then, find and select Heading 1 which is your chapter style you created from the Style name list box.
5. After finishing the settings, please click OK button, and now, the chapter title has been inserted into the header or footer, see screenshot:
Notes:
1. If there's more than one Heading 1 on one page, only the first appeared one will be inserted into the header or footer.
2. The header or footer will be changed automatically when the chapter title is changing.
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In this chapter, we will discuss how to add header and footer in Word 2010. Headers and footers are parts of a document that contain special information such as page numbers and the total number of pages, the document title, company logo, any photo, etc. The header appears at the top of every page, and the footer appears at the bottom of every page.
Add Header and Footer
The following steps will help you understand how to add header and footer in a Word document.
Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click either the Header button or the Footer button that which needs to be added first. Assume you are going to add Header; when you click the Header button it will display a list of built-in Headers from where you can choose any of the headers by simply clicking on it.
Step 2 − Once you select any of the headers, it will be applied to the document in editable mode and the text in your document will appear dimmed, Header and Footer buttons appear on the Ribbon and a Close Header and Footer button will also appear at the top-right corner.
Step 3 − Finally, you can type your information whatever you want to have in your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of the header insertion mode. You will see the final result as follows.
You can follow a similar procedure to add footer in your document.
Edit Header and Footer
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The following steps will help you understand how to edit the existing header or footer of your document.
Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click either the Header button or Footer button or whatever you want to edit. Assume you are going to edit the Header, so when you click the Header button it will display a list of options including the Edit Header option.
Step 2 − Click on the Edit Header option and Word will display the editable header as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 3 − Now you can edit your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of the edit header mode.
You can follow a similar procedure to edit the footer in your document.