Creating and Using Headers/Footers
Headers are text that appear automatically on the top of each page of a document while a footer is automatically placed at the bottom of each page. Folks not in the know may do this manually, which is a lot of work, and precludes any future editing.
Word 2003
- On the menu line click View>Header and Footer
- The default is to create a header. If you wish to create a footer instead, click on the icon in red in the figure.
- In the header box you can have text that is left justified, centered, and right justified all on the same line. When you open the header/footer option, your text is automatically left justified. To center text, tap the Tab key once, to right justify the text tab the Tab key again.
- To enter a page number, click on the icon inside the red square in the figure. (Place your mouse over the other icons to see what they do.)
- Click Close
Create a header for an APA paper with the header text in it.
Word 2007
There are two ways to create a header in Word 2007. If you are creating one that needs to have both text and a page number in it, or anything but the automatic ones that Word thinks we need see creating a header for an APA paper.
For a header or footer that only has either a page number, or only text, click the Insert tab on the ribbon, and select either header or footer or page number. When any of these is clicked a list of possibilities for formatting drops down. Select the appropriate one and enter any needed information.
Word Perfect
Follow the directions in the creating an APA paper.