

Tip: If you are unable to view the section breaks after applying them in your document, click ‘ Ctrl+Shift+8’.ģ. A section break is inserted at the cursor position. From the Page Breaks drop-down, click Next Page. To insert a section break, on the Page Layout tab, within the group Page Setup, click the drop-down list Breaks.Ģ. See below to learn how to insert Section breaks at the end of each chapter to create separate page sections.ġ. THE PROCEDUREĭivide the document into five separate sections using Section breaks.

Suppose your document has five chapters and you need to insert unique header and footer details to each section, the below procedure does exactly that. Then you can assign unique header and footer to each section. Divide the document into different sections using Section break to achieve this. So if I have a bunch of continuous sections on a page that I have copy/pasted from elsewhere with their own headers (not linked), then Word will select one of the section headers (I think the top one) and use it for the page header (and/or footer).MS Word provides an option to create different headers and footers within the same document.

This is due to the fact that each section can have its own header attached. As I edit the document, my headers disappear or change. I have a bunch of continuous section breaks in my document, each seems to have its own heading. (Use the paragraph symbol on the Home tab to show them, if you have difficulty). Once you are satisfied that the headers (or footers) are fixed, you can delete each of the new page returns. Once you fix the headers, you can test them by typing in a letter or number in one header and scrolling through the pages to make sure it shows up on all the pages. Do this for each section that you have given its own page (Ugh!). Click it to link the current header to the previous header. The design tab (of the ribbon) should have the focus and you should see a navigation pane with a “link to previous” option.
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Double click on the header to go into the edit header/footer mode. Once each section is on its own page, we can edit the header (or footer) for that section. After each section break we will need to insert a new page (Ctrl-Enter for shortcut). We need to link each header from each section back to the original header (or footer).
