Goal: To fundamentally manipulate headers & footers within a Microsoft Word 2007 & 2010 document.

Procedure:

1. Office Ribbon > Insert (tab) > Header & Footer (group)
   
2. Header (button) > Blank
   
3. You’ll be presented with blank header, and it will automatically insert a center and right alignment tab. If you hit the TAB key, it will cycle to the from left-to-right through the alignment tabs. Conversely, if you hit SHIFT+TAB key combination it will cycle through the alignment tabs right-to-left (oppositely).
4. You’ll also see the feature specific Header & Footer Toolbar. This toolbar will only display when you are actively editing a header or footer, and it contains the vast majority of the design options for headers & footers.
5. To insert a static or dynamic date/time-stamp you go to Header & Footer Tools > Design (feature specific toolbar) > Insert (group) > Date & Time (button)
6. You’ll be presented with a new dialog box, allowing you to select the desired format and the option to make it dynamically update. To make the date/time-stamp field dynamically update whenever the Word file is opened, select the Update automatically checkbox.
7. You’ll now see a new date (either as static text or a dynamic field code) where your cursor was last located.
8. To insert the page number, apply the similar methodology as the Page X of Y procedure, only modified slightly so we do not overwrite what we have just done in the header. Go Header & Footer Tools > Design (feature specific toolbar) > Header & Footer (group) > Page Number (button) > Current Position (dropdown field, this is the key modified step!) > Select your desired page number formatting. You’ll now see you page number in the in the cursor’s last position.
9. If you’ve finished formatting the header, you and switch to the footer directly with the click of a button go Header & Footer Tools > Design (feature specific toolbar) > Go to Footer (button)

Conclusion: You should now be able to customize your own headers and footers using the feature specific Header & Footer toolbar.

References:

1. Wempen, Faithe. Special Edition using Microsoft Office Word 2007. Indianapolis, Indiana: Que Publishing, 2007. 277-286. Print – [Amazon hyperlink]

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