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Adding Header and Footer to a Word document is a very useful and necessary trick, allowing you to add supplementary content above and below the document pages, and this content will be displayed throughout the entire document.
1. Word 2019.
2. Word 2016, 2013.
3. Word 2010.
4. Word 2007.
5. Word 2003.
How to Insert Header, Footer in Word
1. Word 2019
Word 2019 is the latest version today, to know how to do it, check out the article below.
- Check it out now: How to create Header, Footer in Word 2019
2. Word 2016, 2013
Note: The process in Word 2016 and Word 2013 is basically similar, therefore, we will guide on Word 2016, for Word 2013, you can do the same.
Step 1: To create Header and Footer in Word 2016, simply click on the insert tab and select Header & Footer and then choose Header first.
Step 2: Here you have the option to choose the display style for the Header, here we choose Austin for our document Header.
Step 3: Immediately you will be taken to the interface to create Header and Footer in Word 2016, now you can input any content you want.
Step 4: Then proceed to the Footer section right here, we will create it right away.
Step 5: After creating, you will see content at the bottom of the page that needs to be entered, change that content to whatever you want.
After creating Header and Footer in Word 2016, exit the editing section to view an overview of the document you just made.
Creating Header and Footer in Word 2016 is not just for one page, if you have 2 to 3 pages, the system will automatically fill it in for you.
3. Word 2010
Word 2010 is still widely used up to now (year 2021), so if you are using Office 2010 on your computer, check out how to create Header and Footer in Word 2010 below.
- Explore more: How to create Header, Footer in Word 2010
4. For Word 2007
Step 1: Open the Word file. (1) Go to the Insert tab → (2) Header.
Step 2: Choose from available header styles
Step 3: Add the content you want to display on the document header.
- The result after execution:
Meanwhile, for Word 2010, 2013, and Word 2016 versions, although the interface may differ slightly, you can still perform the same steps.
5. For Word 2003
Step 1: Open the Word file. (1) Go to View → (2) Header and Footer.
Step 2: The editing header area and Header and Footer toolbar will appear.
- Add the content you want to display in the header → Press close on the Header and Footer toolbar to finish.
- The result obtained:
In this article, we've guided you on how to add Header and Footer in Word, allowing you to insert additional details such as: Author, date, document title, location, ... throughout the entire document file. However, you should not overuse creating headers and footers because having too many can confuse users. We should only include necessary information such as page numbers or book titles, author names. Additionally, you can refer to tricks like Numbering pages in Word documents or Hiding text passages in Word files, ... to operate and use Word editor more efficiently.
Many people only know how to create 1 Header or 1 footer in Word without realizing that you can also insert 1 or more additional footers as well as headers. Refer to how to create multiple headers in Word that Mytour has shared to learn how to use and diversify your document files. Of course, in the case of very long documents, this method should not be applied because creating differentiation for each page is time-consuming, moreover, numbering Word pages if you don't use default settings but follow each individual Style can be somewhat inconvenient, however, the trick of creating multiple different headers in Word is worth trying with short passages, text segments where you can apply manual page numbering in Word.
