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How to set my header information

Anonymous
2023-12-12T00:02:00+00:00

Every time I try to type in a new header or correct a header for my document in Windows 11 Microsoft Word, even when I have it checkmarked to using different titles on alternate pages, somehow it disappears or goes back to the incorrect heading. I try to save this function but it still does that after I change it. Please offer step by step instructions if anyone knows how to fix this. I also have trouble getting the document to number each page on opposite sides of the page throughout the entire manuscript. I think I set it accidentally again on the 30th page, in others words it stops counting after a certain number and defaults back to page 1. How do I reset this?

These are two questions involving 1.: The correction of the header titles or how to enter a heading, and 2.: How to set the page numbers continuing up until the last page of my Word document.

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  1. Charles Kenyon 166.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-12-14T17:58:54+00:00

    The following two links may give you some clarification:

    Every Section of a Word document has three header parts and three footer parts, whether or not you see them or they have any content. They can be the same or different. By default they are different and they are separate, changing one does not change another. These can be linked between sections. A page can have more than one section in it.

    Add in the Header and Footer Building Blocks and things get crazy. When you use these, you replace existing headers or footers, not edit them. The same happens when you use Page Number building blocks associated with a particular location rather than current location.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-12-13T00:00:21+00:00

    You mention AutoSave, which is available only when you are saving to OneDrive or SharePoint. Are you working in the desktop version of Word or Word Online? If the latter, you will not see headers properly.

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-12-12T13:01:00+00:00

    Keep in mind that, if you have started a chapter with an Odd Page section break, you may have a blank even page before the chapter opener. If this is the case, then you will appear to have two Odd Page Headers in a row because the blank page is not displayed except in Print Preview. If this is your situation, you should also be using "Different First Page" to omit the header on the first page of the chapter (you can put the page number in the First Page Footer if desired).

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-12T06:48:49+00:00

    Thank you very much, Suzanne. I have printed out the instructions and may be able to find use in it. My headers are inconsistent, some pages are fine, they alternate between my author name and the book's title, but then some are mixed up and even when I go to edit them, they don't stay put, even when on autosave. I tried adding page breaks. Do you know any other way I can solve this problem?

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  5. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-12-12T01:46:59+00:00
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