In all versions of Word, the PAGE field can also be inserted anywhere in a document by pressing Alt+Shift+P. Gives the total number of pages within the current section.Īll of these fields can be can be inserted anywhere in your document, not just in headers and footers, by the standard methods for inserting fields, which are described in the Microsoft help topics Insert and Format Field Codes in Word 2010 and Insert and Format Field Codes in Word 2007. The \h switch can be added to it to create a hyperlink to the bookmark, and the \p switch can be added to display the relative position of the bookmark (above or below) instead of the page number. Gives the number of the page that contains a specified bookmark. Gives the total number of pages in the document.
In this section, you will add a header and footer to a document. On the Design tab to enter and format items such as page numbers and to move from one header or footer to another.
You can enter information in the header and footer areas the same way you enter ordinary text. The document, indicates the header and footer areas by displaying dotted borders, and displays a contextual Design tab on the When you create a header or footer, you can select the style you want from a gallery. You can then create a different header and footer for the current section. Unless you break the link between the two sections. If your document contains section breaks, each successive section inherits the headers and footers of the preceding section
On the first page of a document, and you can have different headers and footers on odd and even pages. You can have a different header and footer You can display page numbers and other information on every page of your document by creating headers and footers regionsĪt the top and bottom of a page that can be created and formatted independently.