Getting 1st pg header w/o checking the option

[Claudia]

I need to create a first-page header without that option
affecting the footer, which I want to print on all pages,
including the 1st page of each section of my document. Is
there an IF code, similar to the one you use to tell Word
to print something on the last page only of each section
(I'm using: IF { page } = { SECTIONPAGES } "..."), that
will instruct Word to print the header on the first page
only? If I check the different first-page option in Page
Layout, it also causes my footer not to print on the first
page.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, you have to enable the "Different first page" option. You can still have
the same footer on the first page; you just have to copy it from the Footer
into the First Page Footer.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Claudia,

Use the same kind of construction, but put in 1 instead of {SECTIONPAGES}.
That is,

{ IF {PAGE} = 1 "..." }

The other possibility is to use the different first page option, and just
copy the footer text from the main footer and paste it into the first-page
footer.