To create the header or footer you desire, open your document and follow these steps: Word can be tricked into doing this because the number of pages in a document only equals the page number on the last page of a document! The header or footer can still contain information that you want printed on every page, but this field prints the document name and path on the final page footer only.Īs you have learned in other WordTips, you can insert field braces by pressing Ctrl+F9, and you can nest different fields, as this tip requires. Often it is desirable to insert something in the header or footer that you only want to appear on the last page. This sets the number of the title page to 0 so that the first page of your text will display a page number of 1.By Allen Wyatt for Using Last-page Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word Click the Start at radio button to set the number for the title page. Click the Page Number item, then click Format Page Numbers from the pull-down menu. Click Insert again to switch to the Insert ribbon (if you're not already there). For a novel manuscript that has a separate title page, there's still one more step. This inserts the current page number into your header for every page on which it displays.įinally, click the big red X in the ribbon to close the Header & Footer Tools ribbon, and you're done!Īt least, you're done if this is a short story manuscript. Click Current Position in the pull-down menu, then click Plain Number from the submenu that opens. With the cursor still at the very end of that line, click the Page Number item in the ribbon. Type "Surname / Keyword / " (though you should of course type your own surname and a keyword from the title of your work). Hit the Tab key twice to set your header flush to the left margin. Now you're ready to create the content of your header.
In the box labeled Header from Top, you can also set the header to display 1.0" from the top edge of the page, if you like. In the First Page Header box at the top of page 1, type Running head: and then your abbreviated title. On the Header & Footer Tools Design tab, in the Options group, select the check box for Different First Page. Double click the header area of the document. This prevents your header from displaying on the first page of the manuscript. Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2010: On the View tab, select the Print Layout document view. In this ribbon, click the checkbox labelled Different First Page. This will open the Header & Footer Tools ribbon. Click the Header item, then click Edit Header way down at the bottom of the pull-down menu that appears. (This is important because we don't want the header showing up on the first page of the manuscript.)Ĭlick Insert from the top menu to switch to the Insert ribbon. Now what I need to do is make the height for the continuation page headers smaller. I did this using the 'Different First Page' option. I have set it up so that the first page has one image in the header, and any subsequent pages have a different image in the header. To create your header, the first thing to do is to place your cursor somewhere on the second page of your document. I'm creating a letterhead template for MS Word 2016. Word 2007 works in a somewhat similar fashion, but earlier versions of Word will be quite different.) (By the way, these instructions will work for Microsoft Word 2010. Follow along with the steps below and we'll get it straightened out for you. I suspect the problem you're having is because you're trying to create the header and set the page numbering separately. A reader writes to ask: Please could you explain how, using MS word, I can use a header like the one on your manuscript of Silvertide? Each time I try it will only let me have EITHER the name of the book OR automatic page numbering, not both.
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