To set the header in Word
With "Office Online" from Microsoft, you can in the Browser, free Word create and edit documents.
- First, open the document.
- You go up to the "Insert" tab and select "header and footer".
- On the "options" you define that the first page should be different. The corresponding command is "different First page".
- Type in the header of the first page of the Text of your choice.
- The header for the other pages, you can completely empty.
- Now the header row is included only on the first page.
- In the Offline program, you can add the header and footer and define the header and then on the tab "Layout".
- An illustrated guide can be found in the photo gallery.

Header only on the first page (source: Pixabay)
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Click in the opened Word document to "Paste".
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Click in the opened Word document to "Paste".
With a further click on the "header and footer" and paste this in the entire document.
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With a further click on the "header and footer" and paste this in the entire document.
If you now go to "options", you can determine the properties of the header and footer.
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If you now go to "options", you can determine the properties of the header and footer.
Select "different First page".
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Select "different First page".
Now you can define both the first as well as the rest of the pages. If you leave the area for the rest of the pages blank, or not blank is inserted in the header there.
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Now you can define both the first as well as the rest of the pages. If you leave the area for the rest of the pages blank, or not blank is inserted in the header there.
