Header first page only

B

Barry

Dear All
I am using MS Office 2003 and would like to know how I only have a
header and Footer on page 1 of a letter please? I do not want Header and
Footer on secondary pages.

Can any let me have simple instructions?
Yours
Barry
 
L

LVTravel

Barry said:
Dear All
I am using MS Office 2003 and would like to know how I only have a header
and Footer on page 1 of a letter please? I do not want Header and Footer
on secondary pages.

Can any let me have simple instructions?
Yours
Barry
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Word 2003.

Click View, Header/Footer. On Header/Footer toolbar click the icon for Page
Setup (6th Icon from left and looks somewhat like open book.) Click Layout
tab in window that opens. Click Different first page in window to turn on
checkmark, click OK. Type in the information on your first page header and
footer. They won't appear on the 2nd and subsequent pages. If you want
different information on 2nd or subsequent headers/footers, once the 2nd
page is created double click in the header or footer area on the first page
and then scroll down to the second page and create the 2nd and subsequent
page header, switch to footer and do the same.

Since you didn't specify any program in Office 2003 and there are at least 5
eligible to be called Office 2003, I took the most likely that would have
headers and footers and that is Word.

Hope this helps, let us know.
 
B

Barry

Dear LVTravel
Many thanks and you are right,it is Word 2003.

I understand all you have said thanks, but I should have said, that we
already have a letterhead set up with a header and footer which shows on
all pages, but we only want it to show on page 1. not subsequent pages.


De we have to recreate the letterhead to get it to do the above? or is
there a work-round?

Many thanks
Barry
 
L

LVTravel

Barry said:
Dear LVTravel
Many thanks and you are right,it is Word 2003.

I understand all you have said thanks, but I should have said, that we
already have a letterhead set up with a header and footer which shows on
all pages, but we only want it to show on page 1. not subsequent pages.


De we have to recreate the letterhead to get it to do the above? or is
there a work-round?

Many thanks
Barry
Click to expand...

Basically it is just what I said but here's how to get it to the first page
only.

Start Word and pull up the document. Double click on the header to get the
header/footer editing open. Copy all the information into the clipboard
from the header (you will need this later.) Click the radio button for the
different first page from the layout menu. The first page header/footer
information will disappear when you click OK. Paste the information into
the 1st page header that you copied into the clipboard. Close the
header/footer editing by clicking on close.

In the main editing screen press Ctrl + Enter which will create a second
page with the original header. Double click on the 2nd page header and
delete all the information on it and the footer if any thing is there.
Close the header/footer editing view. Go to page 1 and press delete key to
remove the hard page break. Save the document as you want.

Test it by pasting a lot of text into the page to ensure that the header
doesn't show up on the second page.

Let me know if this helps or you need further assistance.
 
G

gtoad

The concept of showing a header on the *first page only* seems like it
would be a very common desire (it's what I wanted to do) in Word 2003.

After trying numerous permutations suggested on various forums, all
without success, I finally (and fortunately) found yours. It worked
(thank you!!).

Hard to understand why such a seemingly common task would be so poorly
defined in MS Word.

Thanks again!
 
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