The Header & Footer Tools tab is enabled on the Word Ribbon.

Now on the 5 th page, enable the header/footer sections by double clicking the top/bottom of the page respectively.

From the drop-down list, click Next Page under Section Break.

From the Word Ribbon, click the tab Page Layout and then click Breaks under the group Page Setup.

To insert a Section Break, do the following: This way, you have divided the document into three sections.

Insert Section Breaks at the end of the pages 4 and 7.

The separated sections can be applied with unique formatting and styling.įor example, suppose the pages 5 to 7 in your document to have a unique header/footer than the rest of the document.

The trick lies in separating the pages which would have unique header/footer from the rest of the document using Section Breaks.

Now, if you need to apply unique header & footer to a page or part of a document other than the rest of the document, how will you do that? This is how header/footer supposed to work. Similarly, if you insert header/footer to a page, the same is copied to entire pages of the document. If you remove header/footer from a page of a Word doc, header/footer from the entire document disappears.

Removing header from second page