Headers (and Footers)
Microsoft Word documents are built up from parts that are somewhat
like Russian nesting dolls, with one part inside another inside another...
Headers and Footers are in a separate layer (or story to use Word jargon) from the main document. In addition, they are part of the part known as a
Section.
Every Word document has at least one section. A single page can contain multiple sections. Word will sometimes create section breaks without asking or notifying you. (Orientation, margins, page size.) The section formatting is contained in the section break at the end of the section. The formatting for the last section in a document is in the last paragraph mark of the document.
Do not change the left and right
margins within a page to mark off text. Instead, use paragraph indents. Doing this adds surplus section breaks.
Each section of a Word document contains three headers and three footers.
- The principal one called Header (or Footer) and in some circumstances called the Odd-Page Header (or Footer). I am going to skip (or Footer) from now on because most of what I am saying applies to both.
- The First-Page Header.
- The Even Page Header.
The last two are only shown if you have chosen options to use them. If you use Different Even and Odd, the main one becomes named the Odd-Page Header. They also only appear if there are enough pages in the section to show them.
Watermarks and page
numbers are in Headers.
Here are some
resources that should assist you: