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.

Headers & footers make navigating documents easier. Explore these tips that will show you how to make the most out of headers & footers in MS Word.

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.

You can add page numbers in Word to the header or footer sections of a document using the page numbers option in the Insert menu.

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.

Step 3: Add and Format the Page Numbers Now that you've unlinked each section's header, it's time to insert and modify the page numbers.