You don’t have to take up space in your document for details like title, author, or date. Here’s how to add and customize headers and footers in Word.

This allows you to add your running head to the title page only. Type the desired running head in the header field. Double-click any other area of the document to return to the default view.

Adding headers and footers to a Microsoft Word document is easy, even if you have a mix of header needs. Susan Harkins will show you how.

If you run into a conditional header or footer request that you can't handle, take a look at Word fields. They're not magic, but it kind of feels like magic when they do what you want.

The Header in Word is used to repeat content on top of every page, while the Footer is used to repeat content at the bottom. Learn how to use it.