The Writing Center

by Ruth Rogers ‘07

With your document open, click on the View menu and select Header and Footer.

Any text you’ve typed in the body of your document will become greyed out, and a dotted boundary will appear around the header area of the page (or the footer, if you’re closer to the bottom of the page), and a toolbar will open with header and footer options on it.

Right-justify the header text by clicking the right-justify button on the formatting toolbar — it’s the one with a bunch of little horizontal lines that are lined up evenly on the right side. (Or you can go to the Format menu and select Paragraph… to pull up a dialog box that will let you select the alignment.)

Now you’re ready to type your header. Use two or three words of your paper’s title, followed by five spaces. Then click on the page number icon (#) in the Header and Footer toolbar. Word will automatically insert the correct page number for each page of your document in that spot.

When you’re finished, click Close on the Header and Footer toolbar. The text in your page header will be greyed out, and you’ll be able to go back to editing the body of your paper.