How to have different headers

Question

Hi,

could someone tell me how you add different headings on different pages in the same document? everytime I try to change the heading on a new page, it changes all the previous ones too

thanks

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Answer 1

There are basically three ways to have different headers (not "headings") or footers on different pages:

1. Within a given section, you can have up to three different headers/footers: one on the first page of the section, one on the odd pages, and one on the even pages. You enable these by checking the appropriate boxes in the Options group on the contextual Header & Footer Tools | Design tab.
2. If you have more than one section, you can unlink the header/footer of one section from those preceding and following and put different content in each. The Link to Previous button is in the Navigation group on the same Ribbon tab.
3. If the header/footer content is the same except for changing text that repeats a heading on the page, you can use a StyleRef field to pick up that text; it will change as the heading changes. If you want to omit it on certain pages (the first page of a chapter, for example), you will still need section breaks, but you don't need to unlink the headers/footers.

For more detail on all of this, see http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/headerfooter.htm and http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/StyleRef.htm, as well as the Help article on the StyleRef field.

Answer 2

Thank you so much for that.  It was very helpful and saved me time!