Microsoft Word help with headers...?

Try this:

1. At the top of the first page you want numbered, click the Insert->Break menu item.

2. Insert a Next Page type section break.

3. Move the cursor down a few lines so it's in the new section you just created.

4. Click on the View->Headers and Footers menu item. You should now see and be able to edit the section's header.

5. One of the icons on the Headers toolbar that pops up, probably the fifth from the right, will say "Same as Previous" when you hover the cursor over it. Click it to disconnect the header from the previous one.

6. The one to its right will say "Switch between Header and Footer" Click it.

7. You're now in the footer. Repeat step 5.

8. A third icon, probably the one to the right of the Switch one, will say "Move to Previous" Click it. You've now moved to the footer of the first section.

9. If there's a page number in the header or footer for this section, delete it.

10. Close the toolbar.

11. Go into the second section.

12. Click on the Insert->Page Numbers menu item.

13. Click on the Format button.

14. If you want the first section’s page numbers to count but not show, click Continuous.

15. Or, if you want the page numbering to start at one, click Start At. A 1 should show up in the list box adjacent to it.

16. Click OK.

17. Click OK to actually insert the page number.

That should do it. What you now have is two sections. Both sections have headers and footers, but the page number will appear only in the second section.

Create your own blank document. Open a new Word document. Set the margins you want. cl View, cl Header Type in your name on the left side (if that is what you want) Create a right tab, probably at 6.5 or 7 inches. Tab to the right tab On the header/footer toolbar, click the "insert date" button close the header/footer toolbar Now, cl File, Save AS Save it to something like "0 blank Word document w-name & date" This way, the 0 will keep this blank file at the top of the list of files. When you want to create a new file with this header, open the 0 blank file, then File, Save As to a new name. The 0 will keep your blank document at the top of the list, but the file you created with File, Save AS will be before you with your name and date in the header. I do a lot of work in Word and this works for me. You could simply change the default settings of the "normal" document, but I do so many other things I do not want to have to remove the header when I want to create a different type file. I hope I have explained this clearly to you.