Double-click the header or footer you want to edit, or select the Insert tab, then Header or Footer, and then select Edit Header or Edit Footer.

Set up headers and footers to provide different content for different sections of a document.

Go to Insert > Header & Footer. Add your header or footer text. You can also use the Options in the ribbon to make addition changes. To exit, select Close Header and Footer or press Esc. …

Change the header or footer on the first page, or any other page in the document.

By default, the headers and footers in Word are the same on each page. You often want something different on the left and right side of the document. Here's how:

On the Header, Footer, or Legend tab, click the Left, Center, or Right tab. In the text box, type or paste the text, add the document or project information, or insert or paste a graphic.

Go to Header & Footer > Page Number > Page Number, choose the alignment you want, and select OK. Go to Header & Footer > Close Header and Footer or double-click outside the …

Solution: If you can't directly edit footer text, it's probably the case that the footer placeholder has been turned off in Slide Master view. To change that situation, you can open Slide Master view …

Under Page numbering, choose Start at and type a number that you want to start the section with. For example, restart numbering at the beginning of the body section. Select Close Header and …

Use a screen reader to add, edit, and remove headers and footers in your Word documents. You can add a date, page numbers, the document title, and more.