How to REALLY use Microsoft Word: Headers and Footers

[@bryanmilne]

THANK YOU !! Your series on "How to REALLY use Microsoft Word" has been hugely helpful to me! No one "REALLY" ever explained any of this stuff to me in school! Thanks again!

[@ronsss4774]

Good series. I've only watched a couple so far, but like what I've seen so far. Suggestions: * Include a description of the content of each video. Just point form for major points would be good subjects: Templates. How to use them, how to create them, where to find them. Emphasis on not using DOCX files as "templates Option Dialog. A walk through of the major options in the dialog. Pick a few favorite settings that are not defaults Tables: create, formatting. Find & Replace: get in to advanced find & replace Graphics: where to find clipart now that MS has "improved" them out of Office. Work through the various graphics / image editing options Outlines: using headings to create outlines. Using outline view to re-arrange content by dragging headings to new positions. How to promote / demote heading levels in outline view (tab key). How Navigation pain / Document Map - how to display Nav pane. How to use it as shortcut to various locations in document. How to drag headings like in outline view Shortcuts - using shortcut keys instead of mouse. Using the keyboard dialog to find existing shortuct assignments, to assign new shortcuts to commands and macros. Navigating the ribbon using keyboard shortcuts. OCR - actually that would be in OneNote. Lots of people look for that. Using Word to edit (some) PDFs. Not really OCR, but possible on some specially formatted PDFs. QAT - how to add / remove commands and macros to QAT. Find "hidden" buttons that don't fit on the QAT. Touch mode vs Mouse mode. Picking "Choose command from" drop down to filter commands displays, especially "Commands not in ribbon". Office as a Suite: how all of the applications share some concepts. How you can copy content from one application to another either by paste or paste special. Use of "Themes" to create common look through content created in all of the applications. Cover concept of "evolution" rather than "revolution" as guiding principle for change in the applications. So using "old" training materials is still valid. Features existing in older versions almost always still exist in newer ones, so you can use those older learning materials with only minor translation for slight changes in the user interface. Views: (short topic). Show how the various views give you access to more about the documents. Especially views like draft and web that many people don't bother with simply because they are not aware of them. I spend my time mostly in web view, with a significant amount of time in Outline view.

[@BuckBowen]

Thanks Scott this was helpful. Do you have more in-depth videos on headers and footers? I'm running into issues with page numbers and applying headers to a specific range of pages. Thanks again.

[@suziepert4123]

Very clear tutorial. Thank you You used to be able to have set headers that were stored in word. I am having trouble seeing where I can do this with the new versions. This would be for companies that have set footers for example with path names and logos etc

[@Nick-bg3lq]

Hey Scott, any chance you have a video on how to do page breaks with headers and footers. I'm in a class and we all had a hard time keeping up with the instructor as we were trying to make a title page with no numbers on it, so we the super long document would not look silly Thanks

[@TanerToker]

Thank you for creating such wonderful videos about Word.

[@janebenyon4949]

Your videos are so well explained, thank you. If you haven't already, would you mind doing one on using track changes correctly? Thanks a lot.

[@whitemale4031]

Thanks a lot for your "How to REALLY use Microsoft Word", any chance you'll be uploading any more of the series?

[@lincolnparkhouse1503]

Hello Scott Brilliant series and thank you for producing such simple small chucks of helpful understanding. - Have followed you since 2017. A plea please with headers and footers... We often find ourselves writing long documents (3 or 4 pages [not books!] whereby we use the header/footer facilities in particular, different FIRST PAGE header and footer [then the rest, all the same etc]... all is great with that and no problem except... When perhaps revisiting the document to (perhaps) send to another customer (that doesn't need 3 or 4 pages), we dutifully delete (say) pages 2,3 and 4 to just use the first page but in doing so LOSE the header/footer information that we had so lovingly created when it was a multi-section document. So this simple plea is... Is there a way, when deleting extra sections to KEEP the first page header/footer detail please ? I appreciate that this is perhaps a backward step but just trying to understand what happens with the FIRST PAGE information to be able to 'RE'-use it if needed. Again thank you for your excellent series.

[@cvdnl23]

Nice video :) Maybe you can also do one on creating multi column word documents, like a 2 column scientific-style paper.

[@tmkm130]

I think you do an awesome job of teaching MS Word. I've learned so much. Thank you. I've done mail merges and created labels for thousands of items but I always run into problems such as having words overlapping the labels or even text will print outside of the printable area and you get a message to fix or ignore. Could you please explain what needs to be done? I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!

[@jeannemccabe5752]

Thanks, Scott. I love your tutorials!!!! I am having a hard time using tabs to create a two column bullet-ed list (I ended up cheating). Anyone have any ideas?

[@ImprovementFocus]

Hi Scott, thanks for the clear videos. Could you also do one on positining pictures? That really confuses me

[@laurenderusso4307]

Is there a video on headers and footers for when you are changing from portrait to landscape and back in a document. The spacing is not the same when you switch back and forth.

[@shanselman]

Lauren DeRusso good idea

[@kimberleebell98]

Hi Scott, I like your videos. I have a question about word document linking. I inherited files with multiple saved copies of the same document. For instance, I have a physician orientation manual that I created from single word documents by inserting them in Word (There are several types of orientation manuals all containing some of the same pages) One of the pages is a list of physicians and their staff. Staff members change periodically. I want to update a master word document and link it so that next time I open my physician orientation manual, my physicians and staff list auto updates. I don't want to do the same updates in multiple copies. Can Word do this, or am I trying to figure out how to do something that Word can't do? I can alter how I store files and create these manuals. Is there a better way?

[@EmmaDee]

WHY DID U QUIT MAKING YOUR WORD VIDEOS???? Dang!! Finally someone speaking English, not singing a tutorial, with a bunch of crappy KZbin music. Why do people insist on ruining videos.

[@feliperodriguessousa5759]

Scott, are you still planning the video on citations and bibliography? That would be very helpful, especially if you could give us some tips on how to program and create new bibliography styles, that is very important for a university student who doesn't publish papers in the Harvard, Chicago style etc... Besides that, I never really understood the "topic structure" view, don't know if that's what is called in English, can't remember...

[@CU96821]

Excellent videos Scott. Please do one on inserting and manipulating images in Word.

[@grnmtns1]

How to break links to previous headers or footers? The option is grayed out in header mode. I would like to start headers and page numbers several page in. How do I get away from the linking problem?

[@ArnabDeveloper]

Nice tutorial for the people who write book with Microsoft Word.

[@phelysagalla7073]

Yes! another How to REALLY use Microsoft Word video. Thank you so much for uploading Sir Hanselman :-)

[@dreiobsitue7748]

What kind of screen recorder did you use?

[@FadliBKL]

If you could add video about table in words, such as how to format table, tab for table, positioning table in doc etc.

[@SpecialK6685]

=rand() will also give you random text straight from Word. You can also designate the volume of text or have it Latin or random text from the Word help files.

[@parasrana4564]

I wanted to add the headers and footers outside the margins. How can i do that

[@mohammadahmed7932]

I copied 20 pages from one ms word book 2010 and pasted to new ms word book 2010 ,footer of last three four pages were not visible or half visible half not visible,i tried to adjust with footer margin but in vein, Is there any section or page break or something else .please solve this problem. Thanks

[@tmkm130]

You're such a great teacher. Thank you so much for all that you do. I was wondering if you could do a video on a custom table of contents?

[@mohammadh.9180]

How can I have a different page footer on each page?

[@pattik.dillane4556]

Your video tutorials are great, Scott. Thank you. I would love to see some expert/advanced MSWord features. Like advanced use of multi-level numbering, creating styles and having them appear in the Styles Gallery as well as the Navigation Pane and making them available to create hyperlinks in Link as "Placed in This Document" items. There are always new tidbits of info I pick up from your videos but I'd really like to learn more of the advanced features. Thank you!.

[@lvmyfam11]

THANK YOU!!! I was trying to enter the page number in the footer without deleting all the text..."Enter current position". HALLELUJAH!

[@paulinak.6588]

I was looking for instructions on how to insert a footer that doesn't appear on all pages.

[@TimothySinnott]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@n.v.b2]

Great helpful video!

[@sreerajpj]

Very Nice Video Scott

[@alexandergunn8693]

Im a student and ive always struggled with this particular problem, I need: •3 cover pages which detail the assignment, with a UNI spec header, no page numbers (in footer) •1 front page with the title, 1 contents page, no header or footer •Several pages of the assignment, no header, page numbers in footer (starting from 1) •Several appendix pages, no header, page numbers A1- A... I have no idea how to do this. Please help!!

[@tinytoons2517]

bloody beautiful . . . thank you.

[@HockeyPurist]

Thank you Scott. Excellent video....!

[@sguptamech]

Fantastic video .

[@petertarany2313]

No idea why u got that one dislike! :D Great video, just what i needed!

[@oleksandradidukh5958]

Thank you! It was very usufull

[@张杨-w4d]

Thank you!

[@tobilahanmi9616]

Thank you sooo much

[@sheilagreenough3867]

What about footers in the following circumstance: In a document like a manual, I have different sections within the manual where I want the footer to reflect the different sections with a new series of page numbers for example - I might have 5 different types of resources within the "Resources" section of this manual. In my footer I want to be able to have "Resource 1, Page 1" and "Resource 1, Page 2". But then the next page I want "Resource 2, Page 1" then "Resource 2, Page 2 and so on and so forth. My predecessor obviously figured it out because there are saved documents with this, but I cannot figure out how to do this?! I'm hoping these videos aren't so old that you have stopped responding to them. :)

[@shanishmoidunni1682]

Excellent

[@7266355]

This is the basic stuff that most people already know. There was no mention of Sections nor how to use 'Different first page' or 'Same as Previous'.

[@mikeylorene]

Ok, confused again... "I can double click to get out of header mode- there I'm out..." Great, but what did you do.... where and WHAT is double clicked? Please SHOW exactly what is being done to make a certain thing happen. Just saying and not showing implies that a beginner already knows everything and doesn't have to be shown, but it feels like one step is left out and it's so bewildering to try to find that step in another video.

[@mattwaldman7377]

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[@kvnk]

the audio is out of sync and it's absolutely killing me ;)

[@ruthwengert-vs9ce]

This video shows nothing

[@ruthwengert-vs9ce]

You’re doing too many things at once and you talk too fast. I only wanna know about Heather and footers despite going to where it says remove header and remove footer. It doesn’t work.

[@ruthwengert-vs9ce]

Simply, how do you remove the headers when you go to headers and put remove letters they don’t go away. This is not what normal people want and you talk too fast. You did too many things all at once you flip all around do this that in the other, this is not a teaching video. This is how smart you are video. No one cares that you can do all this stuff because what you can’t do is show other people how to do it.