Different header and footer sections

Often, you might feel a bit restricted when dealing with headers and footers that have the same information at the top or bottom of each page in the document. With section breaks, you can fix this so that, for instance, pages 1 and 3 can have different header content to that of pages 2 and 4. Follow these steps to learn how to do this:

1. Open the document called Sections.docx. Notice that the first page is excluded from headers and footers. This is because the Different First Page option is active in the document.
2. Also, notice that when viewing the header and footer area, the sections are the same from page 2 onward, and the Same as Previous option is active on each page header in the document. This means that anything inserted into a header or footer area will be repeated across all pages:

3. Insert section breaks, where relevant, into the document (for this exercise, we will insert Next Page section breaks at the bottom of each page to break the document into different sections).

4. As you add Next Page section breaks, you might find that the text on the next page moves down slightly. This is normal as the section break tends to do this. Just delete the space at the top of the document as you insert breaks.
5. Make sure you are on the first page of the document.
6. Double-click to open up the header area.
7. Type the text Report on Services.
8. As the second page displays Same as Previous to the right, any text added to the header will appear on the first page as well.
9. Click into the header area on page 2, then click on Link to Previous from the Navigation group – this will remove the link between the two sections and allow you to delete the header from the first page, without interfering with any text on the second page:

10. Move to the next page (Section 3).
11. Click on Link to Previous to remove the link between two sections.
12. Enter the text Safest Solutions Group in the center of the header area.
13. While navigating between sections, notice that the distance between the text in some sections is wider than the next – this demonstrates that you can also use formatting to denote a difference between sections in headers and footers. 
14. Move to the next page (Section 4).
15. Click on Link to Previous to remove the link between two sections.
16. Enter the text Report on Services.
17. Continue in this fashion until you reach the end of the document.
18. Click on the Close Header and Footer icon to return to the document and view the result.