Microsoft KB Archive/22974

How to Suppress a Header/Footer on First Page in Word

PSS ID Number: Q22974 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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In Word, you can have a different header on the first page of a document or on the first page of any section. This different header is called the First Header, and it can be blank or have different text from the regular header.

To create a First Header for a document (or the active section - the section that you last clicked in with the mouse), do the following:


 * 1) From the Format menu, choose Section.
 * 2) Select the Different First Page (First Page Special in Word 4.0 and 3.0x) option. Click OK.
 * 3) Under the View menu, make sure Normal is selected. Then, First Header and Header will show under the View menu (look under the Document menu in Word 3.x and 4.0). You can choose either of these headers to open them and make sure they contain the correct text.

Note that First Header is only for the first page of a section. Header contains text for all the remaining pages of a section.

In addition, note that in Word 4, if you have difficulty making a header become blank, try typing a space (with the space bar) in the header.

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