- [Instructor] Headers and footers allow you
to add small bits of important information
at the top or bottom of your pages.
Page numbers are probably the most common use
for headers and footers.
Now, headers and footers are going to be invisible
if they are empty.
To edit the header or the footer,
just double-click near the top of the page,
and now I'm editing the header.
The rest of my page is sort of grayed out,
which means I cannot edit the body of the document
until I close the header.
But first, let's put something into the header.
I'm just going to type some text here,
and that's all I want for my header.
Now I want you to notice
that as you're editing the header or the footer,
there is this new ribbon active up at the top,
this header and footer design ribbon.
When you're finished editing your header or your footer,
you can click this button in that ribbon to close it,
or you can double click somewhere
outside of the header or footer,
and now you're back in the normal editing mode.
So now I can scroll through my document,
and I can see that I have that header here on every page.
By default, your headers and your footers will repeat
on every page throughout the entire document.
Okay, next, let's do a footer.
And that works basically the same way.
except this time I'm going to double-click
near the bottom edge of one of my pages.
And now I'm editing the footer.
So naturally I could type in some text,
or I could use one of these automated actions
here in the header and footer ribbon.
I could insert some document information.
I could insert the date and time.
But what I really want to do is insert a page number.
So I'll click on that to open up this menu.
Now, this menu does look a little bit different on a Mac.
If you're on a Mac,
you'll choose the page number option from the menu,
and then you'll follow the prompts that it gives you.
But here on Windows,
I want the page number to be in the footer.
So I'm going to go to Bottom of Page,
and I'll choose one of these options.
I want it in the middle, so I'm going to select that.
And now you can see
I have the page number here in the footer.
And of course that is going to repeat on every page,
and it's going to be accurate
to whichever page it appears on.
And it's even going to appear
all the way up here on the first page.
Now, sometimes you don't want the header or footer
to appear on the very first page.
Some people think that looks better,
especially with page numbers.
If that's the case for you,
you can go to that header and footer ribbon,
and you can enable this option for Different First Page.
So now I do have my page number on every page,
except when I go up to the first page, it's not there.
And also, the header is empty.
So from here, I could add something different
to the header or footer on the first page,
but I'm just going to leave it alone for now.
Next, what about removing these
if you change your mind later?
Well, since page numbers are an automated thing,
the best way to remove or change a page number
would be to just go back into the header and footer ribbon,
back to Page Number, and make a change.
And you'll see there's an option to completely remove them
if you want to do that, but I don't want to remove them,
so I'm not going to make a change.
Now, of course you can type any text you might want
into either the header or the footer,
but you can also add a picture,
and it works just like adding a picture
anywhere else in your document.
You just have limited space.
And you can do this
even if there is already a page number there.
Just click somewhere in the header or footer
to make sure your cursor is there,
go to the insert ribbon, then to the pictures option.
I'm going to choose from this device.
And of course I'll need to navigate to the folder
where I have my pictures,
and I just want to choose this small logo graphic
and insert that.
So I want to change the wrapping and position options
so I can put it wherever I want.
So with this picture selected,
we have the formatting ribbon for pictures.
So I want to go into that Wrap Text option.
And I think it's probably best to set this
to something like In Front of Text.
That way, I can move the picture around freely,
and it's not going to move
all of the other text in the footer.
So I'm going to position it where I want,
and I'm going to resize it
just to make it a little bit smaller.
And now as I scroll through my document,
you can see that it does up here
in the footer on every page,
except of course it's not there on the first page.
And when you're finished, all you need to do
is make sure to exit the header and footer
by double clicking somewhere outside of it,
and then you can continue working on your document normally.