I love working with Microsoft Word. There is so much functionality that you can get your Word documents to appear pretty much anyway that you want. Take for instance the ability to add a header section to your Word document.
The header section is the top part of your document. It is the section that will appear at the top of each page within the Word document that you are working on. If you were working on a Word document that is let's say over 100 pages long and you wanted to let people know, who are reading your word document, which page they are on, you can place an automatically incrementing page number in your header section.
In addition to page numbers you can also put text into your header section such as a document title. You can also put dates in there as well as pictures or graphics files. Another good use of the header section may be to have your company's logo appear on every page. There is an endless array of uses for the header section in a Microsoft Word document. Here is how you can add a header section.
At the top of the Word program you will see your menu items. Click on the main menu item labeled “View”. Under that a sub menu will appear. You will see an option labeled “Header/Footer”. Click on that sub menu option. You will notice how your document will gray out everything else on the page except the box where the cursor is flashing. In the box that is now on the screen, type in your header information. You will also notice that the header/footer toolbar is also displayed. On that toolbar there are many options you can add to your header section. You will use that toolbar to add page numbers, dates, files, graphics and so on.
Once you have the header finished you can click the “close” button on the header/footer toolbar. You will now notice that the header section is grayed out and the rest of your document has now become enabled. Any typing that you do now will not affect your header.
If there comes a time when you want to edit your header section you can follow the steps described above or you can double click the header information with your mouse. Now that you actually have a header in your document the double click process will work, where as before you did not have a header yet, therefore double clicking in the area where the header would go will do absolutely nothing.
See how easy that was? In a few days you will be an expert on headers and I am sure everybody in your company will be asking you for your expertise on the subject.
