Word Documents: Changing the Header or Footer

Frustratingly, Word documents tend to reproduce the same header or footer throughout. If you want different headers or footers, here's how. The steps work in Word 2008 (Mac) and I think the procedure is very similar in Word 2007:

1. Your Word document must be open and your cursor must be inside the header or footer that you want to change.
2. Then, go up to View. In the Toolbox, select “Formatting Palette.”
3. Toward the bottom of that palette, you will see “Header and Footer.” (If you don’t see it, then your cursor is not in the Header or Footer.)
4. Click on the triangle to open this Header and Footer Menu.
5. If you want your title page to have a unique header or footer, select “Different First Page.” If you want to format your document for two-sided copying, click “Different odd and even pages.”
6. If your document is in sections, put your cursor in the header or footer of the section you want to change. Now, in the Formatting Palette’s Header and Footer menu, you will see “Link to previous.” Click that box if you want this section’s header or footer to reproduce the previous section’s. Unclick the box if you want to enter a different header or footer in that section. Then go into the section’s header or footer and type what you want there.