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.

Learn how to insert Header or Footer, insert a page number, change the format of the page numbers or remove Header & Footer in Microsoft Word.

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.

In the Header & Footer group, click the Page Number dropdown and choose the third option—Plain Number 3 (Figure A)—to open the header section and insert the page numbering field.

A feature that makes Microsoft Word documents more accessible for navigation is page numbers. Here's a guide on how to add page numbers in Microsoft Word.