Headers and Footers

Professional art directors and page designers don't overlook an inch of their workspace, and you shouldn't overlook the header and footer areas when working with Word -- they offer desktop publishing possibilities that go far beyond page numbers (although you can do more than you think with page numbers, too).

A questioner in a Word forum wanted a means of adding catchwords - the first word (or words) from the top of the following page - to the footer of his document, as shown in the example below. Word has no integral method of doing this - the closest it can manage is the Styleref field, but that can only reproduce information from the current page. A different method had to be found.

Word 2003 seems especially prone to losing the configuration settings in tools > options. One such setting that produces an alarming effect is that relating to the display of white space between pages. When this setting is unchecked the page display in print layout view appears to have lost the header section, as shown in the first illustration...