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Customize headers and footers

Customize headers and footers - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Customize headers and footers

- [Instructor] In the last movie, we added a custom header that includes not just the text that we typed, but is also using the style definition to retrieve the text of the heading one's. And notice then, section one introduction, we have heading one. But we also have that same heading here in the table of contents, and we don't want it here. So let's customize our headers and footers based on our sections. I'm going to double-click. And notice that this is the header for section one. But section two begins right here. And this header is the same as previous. I'm going to select this header just for the heck of it. And copy it. And then I'm going to turn off link to previous. And when I do, this is no longer relying on this header. So I can delete the header for section one. And notice then, we have a new header that starts at section two. Now the other thing I could choose to do if I didn't want to delete it is I can modify it because section two no longer relies on it. Rather than…

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