How to setup indiviudal header for only a section?

[pstein]

I have a Word2007 document with two sections.



I want to setup an individual header for all pages of section 2 starting at page 5. Ok I started at page 5 and clicked at the top of the page and the header area is activated.

1.) Now I entered an individual header text at the left like "backup concept". First Problem: This text appears as well on the header of section 1 pages. Why?

How can I let the text only appear on section 2 pages?

2.) Furthermore I want to place the following information of the rigth side of the header line of section 2:

dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm Page n of m

How can I insert this individual data into header line?

I cannot e.g. click menu
Design->Insert->Date & Time

It is disabled.

Why?

How can I insert the pattern "Page n of m"

Thank you
Peter

[Stefan Blom]

1. You have to unlink the header from its "neighbor" in the preceding section. You do that by clicking the Link to Previous button (so that it gets deselected) on the Header & Footer Tools Design tab.

2. I'm not sure what has happened here. You should be able to insert date and/or time in the header without problems. If you want the current date and time, which is updated each time you open the file, you can insert the Date field via Insert tab | Quick Parts | Field. If you want the creation date for the file, insert the CREATEDATE field in a similar fashion.

3. To add "Page X of Y" at the location of the insertion point: Type "Page." Press Alt+Shift+P which inserts the page number field. Type "of." Then press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Between the delimiters, type NUMPAGES. Select the whole construct and press F9, and Word will update the field display.

[Charles Kenyon]

"How can I insert the pattern "Page n of m""

Page x of y is made up of two fields: Page and NumPages.
Type the following line:
Page page of numpages
Then select the second "page" and press Ctrl-F9. Select "numpages" and press Ctrl-F9.
Select it all and press F9.

[Charles Kenyon]

For more, see Sections / Headers and Footers 2007

The date and time is also a field. Try Insert > Quick Parts > Field.
For more on formatting and choosing Date fields, see Using Date Fields in Microsoft Word. I suspect you want a CreateDate or SaveDate field.

[pstein]

Originally Posted by Stefan Blom

1. You have to unlink the header from its "neighbor" in the preceding section. You do that by clicking the Link to Previous button (so that it gets deselected) on the Header & Footer Tools Design tab.

Thank you.

I though that different sections could never be linked together and require always a new header/footer definition.

However two more problems remain:

The headline "backup concept" and date + page information is currently all left justified.
I want the headline to be left justified and the date+page info right justified.

How can I tell this to Word2007?

Furthermore there is a curious situation when I click on the footer of a FOLLOWING page.

As you can see on the attached snapshot the header area comes BELOW the footer area.

Whats wrong?

How can I "repair" this?

Peter

[Charles Kenyon]

Originally Posted by pstein

The headline "backup concept" and date + page information is currently all left justified.
I want the headline to be left justified and the date+page info right justified.

How can I tell this to Word2007?

Peter

You can do this in two ways.

The method used most often is to set a right-tab at the far right margin and use a tab between the left-justified material and the right justified material. By default headers are set to have a center tab and a right-justified tab.

A second method is to use a borderless table with two columns and set the justification in the two columns as you want.

[Charles Kenyon]

Originally Posted by pstein

Furthermore there is a curious situation when I click on the footer of a FOLLOWING page.

As you can see on the attached snapshot the header area comes BELOW the footer area.

Whats wrong?

How can I "repair" this?

Peter

I've not seen anything like this before and suspect a corrupted document.

Make a copy of your document. Then create a new document and copy the content from the copy to the new document, one section at a time without the section breaks. You will then need to recreate the section breaks. You can copy the headers/footers from the copy to the new document. This is a lot of work and you may want to wait to see if someone else has a better idea.

[Stefan Blom]

Corruption certainly seems the most likely explanation in this case. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm and the KB article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826864/en-us/.