header problems

[raye321]

Hi I am using windows 8 with windows 2013. I am having problems getting the header to appear in all the pages. I needed to start the header and page number on the second page. I got the text on the upper left but when I tried inserting page # the text disappeared. I looked up how to get both on the header but no luck. I saved the document on a zip drive. Later I worked on the document on windows seven which has word 2010. Now when I try to insert a header on the second page it works with the text but it only appears on that page no other pages. Any ideas?

[Charles Kenyon]

Headers (and footers) are Section properties so it is important to know what section breaks there are. To see section breaks you need to go into draft view. (Displaying non-printing characters will display them too, but not as distinctly.) The new page section breaks are easy to spot but the continuous ones can be much easier to spot when in draft view. (Draft view was called normal view in earlier versions of Word.)

See Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013. I know of no differences in how h/f work in Word 2010 and 2013.

Assuming a single section (which is what a new document starts with) if you set the headers/footers for different first page, you will be able to start a header/footer on the second page of the section.

How many pages are there in your document? My guess is that you have a new section starting somewhere on the second or third page.

Here is another good reference on Sections: Working with Sections (or Why Word appears to behave so illogically when you delete or move a section break or How to preserve section formatting when pasting between documents) by Dave Rado, MVP.