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In documents such as theses, graduation reports, or various other textual materials, inserting Headers and Footers is often necessary and sometimes mandatory for editors. While inserting Headers and Footers is relatively straightforward, many users often request different presentations for each chapter. This poses a challenge for some users less familiar with office applications. To address this issue, we can simply divide the Word file content into multiple Sections. Each Section can represent a chapter or a section of the text requiring uniform Header & Footer formatting. In this article, we will guide you on how to present Header and Footer differently for each chapter according to specific requirements. Let's delve into the article.
Firstly, if you're using Office 2010 and are unsure how to create a footer in Word 2010, you can refer to the process of creating a Footer in Word 2010 here.
Diverse Approaches to Formatting Header and Footer for Each Chapter
Step 1: Enter the content of your document. After completing this content section and desiring different Header & Footer styles for subsequent sections, place the cursor at the end of that content section.
Step 2: Next, select the Page Layout tab and click on Breaks. You will have four choices in the Section Breaks section:
- Next Page: Switches to a new page.
- Continuous: Breaks immediately at the cursor position.
- Even Page: Breaks on even-numbered pages.
- Odd Page: Breaks on odd-numbered pages.
For example, if you want to break the Section on a new page right after the cursor position, select Next Page.
So now your document is divided into 2 Sections. Section 1 contains the content you've entered, while Section 2 is where you'll input subsequent content. You can further divide it into more Sections if needed.
Step 3: Now, to create Header and Footer for each Section, double-click on the top Header of any page within Section 1. In the Design tab of Header & Footer Tools, check the box for Different First Page under the Option section and input the desired Header content for Section 1.
Step 4: After finishing writing the Header content for Section 1, click Next to move to the Header of Section 2 as shown below.
Step 5: Click to deselect the Link to Previous option so that the header of Section 2 is not related to the Header of Section 1, then input the content for the Header of Section 2.
Then double-click anywhere outside the Header to complete. For the Footer, follow the same procedure as for the Header.
So with just a few simple steps, we have shared with you both the concept and the method to present different Headers and Footers for each chapter. This seemingly simple yet not widely known technique will help readers make their document files more dynamic, rather than having identical Headers and Footers on each page. Additionally, for those of you composing text documents on PowerPoint, many of you may want to perform similar Header & Footer operations as in Word but are unsure how to do so. If you're genuinely interested, readers can revisit our previous guide on inserting Header in PowerPoint that we shared earlier.
