MICROSOFT WORD

Cover Pages

Following are the simple steps to add a cover page in a Word document.

Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click the Cover Page button available in the Pages group. This will display a list of Built-in Cover Pages as shown below.

Step 2 − Choose a cover page from the options available in the gallery. The selected cover page will be added as the first page of your document which can later be modified according to the requirements. If you want to place the cover page elsewhere except the first page, right-click the cover page in the gallery and select the location you want from the menu that appears.

Header and Footer

The following steps will help you understand how to add header and footer in a Word document.

Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click either the Header button or the Footer button that which needs to be added first. Assume you are going to add Header; when you click the Header button it will display a list of built-in Headers from where you can choose any of the headers by simply clicking on it.

Step 2 − Once you select any of the headers, it will be applied to the document in editable mode and the text in your document will appear dimmed, Header and Footer buttons appear on the Ribbon and a Close Header and Footer button will also appear at the top-right corner.

Step 3 − Finally, you can type your information whatever you want to have in your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of the header insertion mode. You will see the final result as follows.

Edit Header and Footer

The following steps will help you understand how to edit the existing header or footer of your document.

Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click either the Header button or Footer button or whatever you want to edit. Assume you are going to edit the Header, so when you click the Header button it will display a list of options including the Edit Header option.

Step 2 − Click on the Edit Header option and Word will display the editable header as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 3 − Now you can edit your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of the edit header mode.