How do you limit the header and footer to only the first page of a document?

Anonymous
2011-08-09T16:28:43+00:00

I ant the header and footer to only appear on the first page.

Now it appears on every page OR on every odd page.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2011-08-09T20:02:08+00:00

You need to enable "Different first page" and put the header and footer content only in the First Page Header and First Page Footer. If you see the header/footer on every page, then you are putting it in the primary Header/Footer. If you're seeing it only on odd pages, then you have enabled "Different odd and even" which makes the primary header/footer the Odd Page Header/Footer.

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Anonymous
2011-08-09T16:40:18+00:00

My first thought would be IF you have multiple section breaks, you have to UNLINK the Headers and Footers from the previous sections.

For tips see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/front\_matter\_2007.htm for details on how to have different Headers and Footers, etc. in one document.

and

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/workwithsectionscontent.htm

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-25T20:59:55+00:00

    I still don't understand how to get Header and Footer only on the first page of my documents, as I have 5 page document and down want to waist my printer Ink for rest of 4 pages....

    Regards. MEERA

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2012-03-26T02:53:31+00:00

    You have to enable Different First Page and put the content only in the First Page Header/Footer, leaving the primary header/footer empty. See http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/HeaderFooter.htm.

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  3. Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2012-03-26T03:18:05+00:00

    I still don't understand how to get Header and Footer only on the first page of my documents, as I have 5 page document and down want to waist my printer Ink for rest of 4 pages....

    Regards. MEERA

    For more, see Sections / Headers and Footers (Word 97-2003) or Sections / Headers and Footers 2007-2010

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