How do I make the footers different on every page on Microsoft Word?

Anonymous
2012-04-10T14:11:06+00:00

I can make even and odd pages have different footers, but I want page 4's to be different from page 2's and page 5's from page 3's.

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Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-04-10T18:00:04+00:00

To actually create a new footer for each page, you'll need a section break at the end of each page (and you'll have to unlink the relevant footers). But in what respect should footers be different? For example, if you want to include text from the page, you can format that text in a unique style and then make use of the STYLEREF field.

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  1. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-07-22T07:33:08+00:00

    So if the "link to previous" is greyed out you will have the exact same footer on every page which effectively makes the footer COMPLETELY useless?

    The only time that option is greyed out is if you're in the first Section or the document has some form of protection applied. I'm sure you can figure out why that might be so.

    All Word versions are the same in this regard, though the Starter edition may be even less capable in this area.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-22T06:46:04+00:00

    So if the "link to previous" is greyed out you will have the exact same footer on every page which effectively makes the footer COMPLETELY useless? Word 2013 must be total $#!+ then if such a simple option is unavailable for editing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-22T06:42:43+00:00

    That answered none of that question at all.

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  4. Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-06-24T18:39:49+00:00

    Once you have split the document so that there is a Next Page section break at the end of each page, activate the header/footer view. Click in the footer of section 2 and clear "Link to previous." Repeat the procedure for subsequent sections. Then you can edit each footer separately.

    Depending on your version of Word, the "Link to Previous" option may be called "Same as Previous"; regardless, you need to deselect it (for each section), because it is selected by default each time you create a new section in Word.

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