Using headers and footers

When you're working on a document, you may have a tendency to focus your …attention on the actual text within the document itself, in what I think of as …just the normal body area of that document, the area within the margins. …And that's perfectly understandable, since that's probably where you're going …to spend the vast majority of your time. When you're working on a document. …But in addition, we can add some elements outside of the margins as it were, in the …header and footer areas. So I can have information up at the top …of the page or down at the bottom of the page, and that information can be …repeated from page to page. The most common example, of course, would …be to add a page number at the bottom of each page in a document.…

Let's take a look at the various options available for both headers and footers. …Headers and footers are essentially the exact same thing. …They're just either at the top, if it's a header, or at the bottom, if it's a footer. …To get started I'll go to the Insert tab on the Ribbon, and then over toward the …