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Header and Footer Tools: Design

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This toolbar is context sensitive, and becomes active after double-clicking the page header or footer in a document.

To add a page header or footer, use the appropriate commands of the General Tools: Insert toolbar.

The commands available in the Design toolbar of the Header & Footer Tools category are divided into the following sections.

Command Large Icon Small Icon Description
Go to Header icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-go-to-header icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-go-to-header Allows you to switch to the page header of the current document section when editing a page footer.
Go to Footer icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-go-to-footer icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-go-to-footer Allows you to switch to the page footer of the current document section when editing a page header.
Show Next icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-show-next icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-show-next Allows you to navigate to the header or footer of the next document section.
Show Previous icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-show-previous icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-show-previous Allows you to navigate to the header or footer of the previous document section.
Link to Previous icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-link-to-previous icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-link-to-previous Makes the header or footer display the content of the header or footer of the previous document section.

Options

Command Large Icon Small Icon Description
Different First Page icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-different-first-page icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-different-first-page Creates a unique header and footer for the first page.
Different Odd & Even Pages icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-odd-and-even-pages icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-odd-and-even-pages Allows you to specify different headers and footers for odd-numbered and even-numbered pages.

Close

Command

Large Icon

Small Icon

Description

Close Header and Footer

icon-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-close

icon-small-toolbar-header-and-footer-design-close

Exits the header and footer edit mode.

You can also do this by double-clicking the document area, or by pressing ESC.