Adding headers to certain pages only in Microsoft Word

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Course contents
SECTION: 5
How to create a company template 2:20
SECTION: 8
How to make an interactive form 10:13
SECTION: 9
Creating personalized letters using Mail merge 4:34
SECTION: 11
Cheat sheet & shortcuts 3:23

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Course info

52 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Hi there, in this Word tutorial course we’re going to learn Microsoft Word together. This is a project based course.

We’ll work through real world documents such as a formal business letter, monthly newsletter, a really long business report, a timetable and a visually exciting interactive PDF product document.

Projects included:

  • Creating a formal business letter

  • Creating a monthly company newsletter

  • Formatting a long business report, adding charts & graphs from Excel

  • Creating a timetable schedule using tables

  • Creating a company template using corporate fonts, colours & images

  • Creating a product overview PDF with basic interactivity

  • Creating a business form

  • Printing personalised letterheads & envelopes for client lists

This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous knowledge of Word or any desktop publishing experience. We will start right at the basics but quickly get into working with up to date modern features.

You’ll work with images, logos & specific company colours. You’ll create corporate templates and reusable styles - automatically personalizing them using Mail Merge.

You’ll learn to make a monthly newsletter with links & videos ready for sharing & commenting. You’ll learn how to take charge of long documents; cleaning them up and adding professional graphs, infographics, tables and much more including exercise files. We will give you a printable 'cheat sheet'.

I will be around to help.If you get lost you can drop a comment on the video 'Questions and Answers' section that is below every video & I'll be sure to get back to you.

So my friend, now is your time to go from Word Zero, to Word Hero and for you to become the Microsoft Word professional in your office.


What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word 2016.

  • No previous Word or desktop publishing skills are necessary.

What am I going to learn from this course?

  • How to work with your specific company fonts & colours.

  • Format text like a professional.

  • Work with various images, styles and implementations.

  • Save documents to older versions of Word.

  • How to save as a PDF.

  • How to make an interactive form.

  • Where to get inspiration for your design.

  • How to install new fonts.

  • Work with multiple column layouts.

  • How to personalise letters & envelopes from a list.

  • Adjust heading styles.

  • Work with really long text documents.

  • How to create a table of contents automatically.

  • How to work with bullets & numbering.

  • How to master tabs.

  • Create beautiful graphics & diagrams.

  • How to make an infographic.

  • How to work closely with Microsoft Excel.

  • How to work with comments & changes.

  • How to share you documents with others.

  • How to build your own company templates.

  • How to work with tables.

  • How to add videos to you documents.

  • You’ll get a cheat sheet, shortcuts and much, much more…

Who is the target audience?

  • Yes: This course is for people who need to learn Microsoft Word for work.

  • Yes: This course is perfect for people who need to upgrade their skills for their CV and job applications.

  • Yes: This course is for complete beginners and for people who know the basics of Word already.

  • No: This course is NOT for people who have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word.

  • No:This is for PC version of Word 2016. (While 90% of this course will work on a Mac and in early versions of Word no guarantees can be made.)

Course duration 3 hours 18 mins

 

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, in this tutorial what we're going to do is we're going to create a header and a footer that starts on a page other than page 1. You can see, header, footer, but nothing on this blank page, there's nothing on the title page, so it starts later on in the document. So let's go and do that now.

For this to work we need to have what's called sections in our document. Now, if you're following along this tutorial, we've already created sections, you remember? We did it a little earlier on, and if you haven't, and you're just jumping into this one tutorial by itself, I'm going to show you. 

Let's say I've got this document here, and what I need to do is I want my page, or my header/footer to appear on some of these other pages, not maybe the first page, or maybe not the second page. In our case, what I want to do is, this is going to be my first page, this is going to be my table of contents, so what I want to do is, just in front of table of contents here, I'm going to say 'Insert'-- I'm actually going to go 'Layout', 'Breaks', I would like to insert this thing called 'Next Page'. That's broken this into a section, and then, from here, ongoing, there's another section. That's how you split headers and footers, because you can have specific headers and footers per section. 

So you need to make this happen, so I've cut this down into one section. I'm going to do two sections, so I'm going to put another one in here. I'm going to go 'Next Page'. So that's the thing you need to do first; cut these things to sections. I'm going to jump back into the document that we've been working throughout this tutorial.

So I've already done that for this case. Title page, contents page, what's going to come in my first page. So what I need to do is, to add the header, what I do is double click in this kind of random area at the top, it's my header area, and what we're going to do is we're going to put in an image along the top, and we're going to put in some text down the bottom.

To insert an image, or actually, before we get started, it's this-- this is the option here. So we double click to go into here, it says 'Link to Previous'. That's the bit we want to turn off, we don't want to link to previous ones, we want him to be all by himself. And now what we're going to do is we're going to go insert an image, or pictures. This is the image from the Word exercise files that you can download, there will be a link on this page somewhere, and '03 Document', we're going to bring in our 'Accountant Logo', click 'Insert'. It's too big, I'm going to make him smaller. 

A couple of things I want to do, I want to move him over here, he won't move, remember, click on this, click on 'Behind Text', and I want to go 'Fix Position'. Now sometimes when you're working with the header/footer, there's a few things you can, and can't do, so, when I click on him again, click on this, go to 'Fix position', so they have average use, click off, click back on. Now what I get to do is, I can get to move him wherever I like. He's going to be up there in the top corner, nice and small, and down the bottom here, my footer, what I'd like to do is, I've got my page number in here from the previous tutorial. What I'd like to do now is to have the name of the document kind of over here on the side. And Photoshop's installed. Just good to know.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to grab this text here from-- double click, grab that, copy. What you'll notice is that, you can see, there's no header and footer on these pages here, just because of what I did there. So I'm going to go back in to double click footer, and just after the number 1, I'm going to insert this tab here. It says 'Insert Alignment Tab'. I'm going to do one on the 'Right'. If you want yours to be at the center, you use 'Center'. I just want mine on the right. And I'm going to paste text in, but I'm going to go to 'Home', 'Paste', and I'm going to use this last option, it says 'Paste Text Only', otherwise the formatting will come through, and it will be that really big green color. Awesome! So that's my header/footer, and it's starting on its own page because of our sections. Double click.

Now, you'll notice that everything's grayed out, everybody hates it, and there's no way of turning it off. Now I know there's a sneaky way you can make the images kind of stand out using the Windows media format, something like that, it’s really hard to do, and it only works for the image, doesn't work for the text. If anybody knows other way to make all of this go nice and dark rather than being grayed out, that would be helpful, send it to me with a note in the comments. For everyone else, just know that when you do print this it prints it full color even though I can see-- watch this, it washes out when I click in here, and if you're sending it to a client, and you just really want it to be full color you can make a PDF. We covered that in an earlier tutorial, how to make a PDF out of Microsoft Word. You could send a PDF, it would be pretty nice and full color, or when you hit 'Print', it will print out nicely, but, till then, we have to live with grayed out headers and footers.

All right, so that's how to create header/footer that starts on a different page other than page 1. 

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