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

Anonymous

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 MVP Volunteer Moderator

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

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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Anonymous

2015-05-12T22:30:34+00:00

The vast majority of documents use letterhead on page 1, and blank on the rest; why does Word make this format so difficult?
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Anonymous

2015-05-12T22:49:41+00:00

Exactly. The techies at MS Word need to address this very obvious and very clumsy glitch.
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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-05-13T00:23:26+00:00

What's so difficult about selecting Different First Page?
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