Now, if you preview your document by choosing Print Preview from the File menu, you can see there are headers or footers in each section except the one where you deleted them.
#How to reset header and footer in word update
Microsoft has released an update for Word to correct this issue. Headers and Footers option should be opened in the upper tab.
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Subsequently, you can reset the page numbering in your document so that number starts at the second page. As a result, the header and footer section disappears from the first page. Headers typically contain the title of the document. In the dialog box, under the Headers and Footers section, click option Different First Page. Headers and footers are used in documents to help organize and identify different sections of the document. On the Ribbon navigate to the Page Layout tab and within the Page Setup group, click the Page Setup dialog-box launcher icon.Ģ. Here is this workaround to overcome this.ġ. Incidentally, this way Word inserts page number to the first page too. This saves us from inserting page numbers manually to each page, as content placed in the header/footer section is repeated throughout the document. Normally in Word, we insert the page number field either in the header or footer section of documents. As a convention, the first page (or cover page) does not hold a page number.