#ADDING A RUNNING HEAD IN WORD 2010 UPDATE#
#ADDING A RUNNING HEAD IN WORD 2010 PRO#

Head to the first page you want your numbers to appear on (probably the first page of the first chapter) and double-click on the footer. If you just used Page Breaks to separate chapters, youвЂ™ve got it easy. If you want to have different content on the Odd and Even pages (like a title on one side and author on the other) you need to check this option. If this option is not checked, adding anything to the Header or Footer will show up in all the following Headers or Footers in the section.

Different Odd & Even Pages вЂ“ Okay, this one is important.

Check this box and the first page of the section will be completely unique.

Different First Page вЂ“ Does the first page of a new chapter have an oversized chapter title? Or an image? A lot of authors who do this like to leave off the Header and/or Footer on the first page of a section.

But if you plan to add unique content for each section, the Link to Previous option must be turned off. To make page numbering sequential, Linking is helpful. If selected, the Header and Footer will link to the Header and Footer in the previous section.

Link to Previous вЂ“ This setting is always defaulted to being вЂONвЂ™ so you have to check it for all your sections.

#ADDING A RUNNING HEAD IN WORD 2010 PRO#

Pro Tip: itвЂ™s helpful while formatting to turn on Reveal Non-Printing Characters. If you leap ahead and make a change, then go back and insert an image, the content will shift. Add images and position them.Дo this from the first page to the last in order. All of it! That includes front matter (title and copyright page), back matter, everything. In fact, before you do any formatting for your book, complete the content. DonвЂ™t make more work for yourself by adding page numbering too soon. Book formatting is best approached in a thoughtful order page numbering is at (or at least near) the end of the process.Д®very little change in your file can shift or reposition other content, which in turn can impact your Breaks and throw off your page numbers. The only difference is, on the Insert tab, you select Footer instead of a Header and follow the same steps.If you want to get into the nuts and bolts, along with detailed information and images, read on! Step 1: Finish Your FileДo not, under any circumstances, add page numbering in MS Word before you have finished editing and revising your file.

#ADDING A RUNNING HEAD IN WORD 2010 UPDATE#

In between the brackets type STYLEREF вЂњHeading 2вЂќ (orВ whicheverВ heading style name you prefer):ДЎ2) Press F9 to update the second running header:ДЎ3)В IMPORTANT: The next page will display the same Heading 2 style runner because it does not have a Heading 2 style heading:ДЎ4) The process is exactly the same with the footer. Then insert double curly brackets by pressing Ctrl+F9. Just insert your cursor in the header where you want the second runner to display. Here is running header:Д©) IMPORTANT: The running header of is the same as since page 3 does NOT have a Heading 1 style heading:ДЎ0) On, we have a new running header since the page has a new Heading 1 style heading:ДЎ1) You can of course have more than one running headers or footers.

ALL page headers have been updated automatically. Now the page header will display the first Heading 1 style text on the page:Д§) We did all this on the header of actually but it does not matter. For example, вЂњ Heading 1вЂњ:Д¦) To update the field, press F9. Your cursor should be blinking in between these two brackets:Д¤) Type STYLEREF in between the brackets, followed by double quotation marks ( вЂњвЂќ):ДҐ) In between the quotation marks, type the NAME of the PARAGRAPH HEADING STYLE that youвЂ™d like to appearВ automaticallyВ in every header. ThatвЂ™s where your running header will appear.ДЈ) Press Ctrl + F9 to insert double curly brackets.

Select to insert a BLANK header, for our illustration purposes.Дў) Place the cursor where you want in the header area.

Here is how you can have automatically update running headers and footers:ДЎ) In your MS Word document, select the Insert tab on the ribbon, and select Header. Longer theВ document, theВ moreВ valuable such вЂњrunnersвЂќ are. It is a very useful contextual documentВ informationВ that helps the reader navigate through theВ document. Such running headers are useful inВ identifyingВ the section or chapter that the reader is viewing, regardless of the page number. You can add running headers (also called вЂњrunning headingsвЂќ) or running footers to a MS Word technical document so that the text of the selected heading style isВ automaticallyВ printed as a вЂњheaderвЂќ or вЂњfooterвЂќ either at the top or bottom of every page.

Adding a running head in word 2010