Browse to your relevant Word 2016 / 2019 / 365 / 2021 document.On your computer, launch Microsoft Word.To display the header just in the opening page of your Word document, kindly go ahead and proceed as following: Have headers on first page (only) in Word Here’s a simple tutorial to explain how to put customer headers for Microsoft Word (both Windows and macOS) then we’ll provide a similar tutorial for Google Docs documents.

In summary: can i get my document header and footer to show it in the first page only?

I guess my question is whether what i am asking is even possible either in my desktop Word 365 version? If not, is it a feature offered in Google Docs. In the subsequent pages, i would like to keep and display only the report (file) name information or sometimes just remove the header from the second page and onward. The documents i create have a custom header in which i typically input the report name, its author, date it was written and so on.

I work as a business analyst and often use Microsoft Word as well as Google Docs to author some performance tracking reports which i submit to my management chain so that they can take action. Here’s a note we got from our reader, Diana: This tutorial is applicable to: Office 365, 2019, 2016 (Windows 11 & 10) and Google Docs (Windows, macOS and Linux).

Header only on first page in word