Word is a full-fledged office program that can be used not only to work with small documents, but also to create complex books consisting of several sections. And although this application is inferior in some ways to professional typesetting programs, its accessibility is a big plus, since not everyone has to deal with complex documents regularly, and mastering complex typesetting programs can be redundant. However, in connection with the execution of voluminous documents, questions often arise about what resources the program has to approximate the finished layout to a professional one. For example, how to make different footers on different pages. This performance emphasizes the structure of the book or catalog, simplifies the perception of the publication.
This article is about how to make different footers on different pages.
General principle
The general principle of working with headers and footers is quite simple. Different footers in one Word document will be if the document is divided into sections. That is, each section will have its own footers. At the same time, for example, footers can be cross-cutting for several sections (in the event that the book is divided into chapters and paragraphs), and headers can vary. The same goes for even and odd pages. For example, the constant for the section of the book may be the inscription on the right page of the spread below. The constant for the chapter is the inscription on the right page below. And the headers will vary from paragraph to paragraph. All this is quite simple to do in Word 2007, you just need to understand the mechanism of dividing into sections and managing footers.
What are sections
Before you make different footers on different pages of the Word document, you need to correctly divide it into sections. The section in this case is not a thematic and not a semantic fragment, but a technical fragment. This is such a part of the document to which you can apply attributes different from other sections. For example, each section may have different fields. One of the possibilities of using sections of the Word program is different footers in one document. We clarify that without dividing into sections in this application it is impossible to establish different margin labels, they can only be the same.
How many sections in a document?
By default, Word 2007 has one technical section. Often we work with a document not from scratch, for example, we can modify the document after colleagues or create our own document based on a template or sample. In this case, you need to check if there are any additional sections in the book. To do this, use the search to find section break marks.
Turn on the mode of displaying invisible characters (“Home” - “Paragraph” tab - “Display all characters”).
Press Ctrl + F. In the dialog that appears, bottom left, click the More button. Place the cursor in the "Find" field. Then click “Special” and select “Section break” in the list that appears (usually it is at the bottom of the list). The combination ^ b will appear in the "Find" field. Now click "Find Next." If the document is divided into sections, the program will highlight the notation for section breaks. They need to be left or removed (depending on how much they correspond to the intended scheme of the document).
Partition Markup
So, in the Word application, different page headers are possible when dividing a document into sections. To separate a document, it is necessary to mark it up, namely, insert special signs of borders (gaps).
To insert such a gap, stay in the mode of displaying invisible characters (when you master this manipulation, you can work without this mode).
In the "Page Layout" menu on the "Page Setup" tab, find the "Breaks" button and click it. The drop-down list will be divided into two parts: “Page breaks” and “Section breaks”. In the second part, select the option that suits you and click on the appropriate key.
A section break sign appears in the document.
Insert all section breaks so that the technical structure of the document (markup) matches the compositional idea.
Duplicate default footers
To insert footers, go to the "Insert" menu. The necessary buttons are on the "Headers and Footers" tab. After that, a footer will appear (visually uniform for all sections). However, in reality it is not the same: there are several of them repeating each other, since by default the program assumes the option of text flowing from section to section, that is, each footer, except the first, has the option “As in previous section ".
Cancel duplicate footers
How to change headers and footers on different pages? To cancel the existing default repeatability, you need to double-click on the footer with the left mouse button. After that, the menu item "Designer" is activated. On the “Transitions” tab there is a button “Like in the previous section”. It is she who is “pressed” by default. Deactivate it, in this case the option applied to this section will be canceled.
The principle of difference and flow of headers
So, the question of how to make different headers and footers on different pages has been resolved. The footer will be different from the previous one if you deactivate the “Like in the previous” button. However, activating this key is not universal for a document. You need to leave it pressed or “squeeze” each section (depending on your plan).
Suppose the first section is the preface to the book. It will have a unique inscription above the text. The second section is a chapter divided into paragraphs, with each paragraph technically framed as a section. In this case, the header will be common for all paragraphs of the chapter (the button “As in the previous section” does not need to be pressed starting from the third - they will all repeat the second), and the footers will be unique. In this case, the specified button must be deactivated everywhere.
An even more elaborated structure of the document can be given if you make different headers and footers on the left and right pages of the spread. This is possible if you activate the option "Different footers on even and odd pages." The corresponding field is located on the "Parameters" tab in the "Design" menu (called by double-clicking the left mouse button when the cursor is on the footer). In addition, you can make a separate footer on the first (cover) page.