Hello. I'm trying to work something out for our company. I've been handed the duty of creating a document templates for word. We need the header to only be on the first page (I already did that with the different header on first page option) and the footer ONLY on the last page (and if there is only one page on that one single page).

I've managed to find some tutorials with IF statements but to be honest they are so poorly written I can't make heads nor tails of them. I tried doing this with section breaks but couldn't really figure that out ether.

I would appreciate any advice.

First, NO SECTION BREAKS to do this. Section breaks are good things when you need them, otherwise they cause confusion and delay. You do not need a section break to do this.

See How to control the page numbering in a Word document.You will be operating in the footer. So make sure you can type in the footer.

1. Type what you want to appear in the footer. There should be no quotation marks.
2. Put that in quotation marks.
3. In front of that type: "If page = numpages " without the quotation marks but with the space at the end.
4. Select "page" and press Ctrl+F9 and then F9.
5. Select "numpages " and press Ctrl+F9 and then F9.
6. Select the entire footer except for the final paragraph mark. (You are showing paragraph marks, right?) Then press Ctrl+F9 and then F9.

Ctrl+F9 creates the braces for a field. F9 updates the field and hides the field code, showing the results.

If you press Alt+F9 you should see something like the following in your footer:

{ IF { Page } = { NumPages } "my footer contents to show only on last page" "footer to show on every page except last page" }

If you did that, press Alt+F9 again to toggle back to displaying field results rather than codes. Remember that the field braces must be inserted in pairs using Ctrl+F9, not simply typed.


Using Fields in Microsoft Word
Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013

when you say select entire footer you mean with the if statement to? If I do that:

1. The footer only shows the second word in the entire footer (beats me why).
2. It still shows on all pages not just the first one.

It's probably good to mention that the footer is in 2 paragraphs.

Use Alt+F9 to display the field.
Put the part you want to appear in quotation marks.
Press Alt+F9 again then F9.

See the revised instructions above. I forgot to mention the quotation marks. (They are shown in the linked articles, though.)
I also added a sample of what the field should look like.

It should be showing on only the last one. It is taking the second word as the "falsetext" for the field.