If you’re unsure how to do that, check out our guide on inserting page numbers in Word. This article explains how to add a different header or footer to the first page of your Word document or remove it from the first page altogether. The illustration below shows the Header Footer Boss dialog box, the control center from. Note that if you apply a heading style to a header (or footer) paragraph, it won't show up in the Navigation pane. To change first page: Do above, and then Header & Footer > Header or Footer > select a format (optional) > type your new header/footer. The Word Toolkit tab in the Ribbon with the Header Footer Boss command. If you were using page number, and want to continue them in this section, you’ll need to insert the page numbers and then tell Word to start those page numbers off from a particular point. The easiest way to format heading text in your document is to apply the built-in heading styles, called Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. Here’s what it looks like: You can find more header and footer details in for Word 2010 in Add or remove headers, footers, and page numbers. This works the same way in Word 2010 and Word 2007. If it’s the same material as in the first section of your document, you can just copy and paste it from there, and it will then appear in the rest of your document (except in the new section you created, of course). You can double-click in the body of the document. Now, all you have to do is create the header or footer you want to use for the rest of the document. You can also display the Header and Footer Design tab and edit the header or footer by double-clicking in the top or bottom margins of the document.
Again, the button becomes de-selected, because you’ve now broken the link to the header or footer area of that new section you made. On the Design tab in the Header & Footer Tools area of the Ribbon, click the “Link To Previous” button. Now, activate the header or footer area on the first page of that new section. On the “Layout” tab, click the “Breaks” button, and then choose the “Next Page” option.