Regulate Footer Title For Free

Headers and footers can be used to display information in the top and bottom margins of your document. They can include details like the author's name, page numbers, the date, and more. To create your own header or footer from scratch, double-click the margin at the top or bottom of your document. This will "unlock" the header or footer area, so you can add whatever information you want. You can also use the tools on the Design tab, which will appear on the right side of the Ribbon. When you're done, you can close the header or footer using the button here, or by pressing Esc on your keyboard. If you don't have a lot of experience with headers and footers, you might want to start with a preset instead. Preset headers and footers give you several different designs to choose from, so they're a great choice for any document. To add a preset header or footer, go to the Insert tab... then click the command that you want. In this example, I'm going to add a header. You can choose one of the simple options at the top, or scroll down for something more unique. Notice how we have access to the Design tab again. For now, I'm just going to enter my information into the box here, which is known as a content control field. If we close the header, we can see what it looks like compared to the rest of the document. To edit it again, you'll need to unlock it by double-clicking the margin. I forgot that I wanted to include the date, maybe right here below the document title. To add this to your document, just click Date & Time on the Design tab... then choose how you want the date to appear. If you want the date to be updated every time you open the document, check the box next to "Update automatically." This is good if you want to show the date the document was printed, instead of the date it was created. Otherwise, leave the box unchecked... and it will remain at today's date. Let's take a look at page numbers next. The header I chose doesn't have them, but they're really easy to add. Just place your cursor where you want the page numbering to go. In this example, I'm going to press the Tab key until I reach the tab stop on the right. Next, click the Page Number command... and make your selection from the menu. Top of Page and Bottom of Page will replace your current header or footer with whatever option you choose. Sometimes that's what you want, but in this case, I'm trying to add page numbers to the header I already have. For that, we can choose Page Margins or Current Position... and now we have page numbers on each page of the document. If you need to restart your numbering partway through your document, there is a way to do this. You can even apply a different numbering style. You just have to insert a section break first. In this example, I want to restart the numbering at page 1 for the Works Cited section. So I'm going to place my cursor at the beginning of the section... then go to the Page Layout tab. From here, click the Breaks command... and...