There’s also a style called Normal style. First Option: Apply Normal Paragraph styleĪll the heading styles, Heading 1 through Heading 9, have their own formatting, which you can modify anyway. Without further ado, below are the various ways you can Heading styles also helps if you want to insert an automatic table of Content into your document.ĭespite all these awesome things heading styles can do, you may want to remove it in your Word document for some reason. Things like collapse and expand content under each heading. These styles are very handy as it allows you to applyĬhanges to all your headings at once. Microsoft Word comes with a library of heading styles you can use in your document. After deleting the header content, the header itself will disappear from all your pages. Then select all the content in the header and hit the delete key. Option 2: Clear all the header content to remove the header in WordĪnother way to delete header in Word is to double-click on the header area to make it editable. Use the same headers and footers from one page to the next: Click in a corner of the document (so nothing is selected), click in the toolbar, then select, select the “Show header and footer” checkbox (if it isn’t already selected), then select the “Match previous page” checkbox.This is how you may exit headers in Microsoft Word. Show or hide the header and footer for a single page: Click in a corner of the document (so nothing is selected), click in the toolbar, then select or deselect the “Show header and footer” checkbox to show or hide the header and footer on this page. Set the distance from the top and bottom page margins: Click the arrows or enter values in the Top and Bottom fields (below the Header and Footer checkboxes). Use different headers and footers for left and right pages: If your document uses facing pages and you want to enter different information on left and right pages, select the “Left and right pages are different” checkbox. To format headers and footers, do any of the following: In this case, click in the toolbar and choose Page Number. Note: If you already added a page number on another page, you don’t see the Insert Page Number pop-up menu. Try putting text in the header and the page number in the footer, for example, to avoid cutting off the text. However, if there is text or a page number already in one of the fields, the original field limits apply.
If the text in your header or footer is too long to fit in a field, the field adjusts to allow for the longer text. If a button is dimmed, that format can’t be applied to the selected text. To change the font, font size, color, and alignment of header and footer text, select the text, then use the controls in the Format sidebar. Left and right pages are different: When this checkbox is selected in a document using facing pages, the headers and footers on left and right pages can be different. Deselect this checkbox if you want to use different headers and footers for this section. Match previous section: Use the same headers and footers from one section to the next. If the document has more than one section, the setting applies only to the first page of this section. Hide on first page of section: Hide the header or footer on the first page. To set header or footer behavior for each section, click the Section tab at the top of the Document sidebar, then choose any of the following: To set the distance from the top and bottom page margins, click in the toolbar, click the Document tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the arrows or enter values in the Top and Bottom fields (below the Header and Footer checkboxes). Instead, click in the toolbar and choose Page Number. Note: If you already added page numbers in another section, you don’t see the Insert Page Number pop-up menu.