I need some help working out headers and footers and such in MS Word 2007 please.?

Question

I'm getting really close to finishing a major report, but I'm not sure how to get MS Word 2007 to do these things that I want it to do.

I want to have a Page X of Y thing in the footer, preferrably in the centre [I can do that part] but otherwise alternating (so if I were to print double-sided the page numbers would all be on the outside of the 'book').

I also want the page numbers to only show up on the third page onwards, not particularly fussed as to whether this starts saying "page 3 of __" or "page 1 of __". If I just delete what it says on the first page's footer then it deletes all of the page numbers within the document.


I'd also like to include my name within the header or footer, but I'd also like to include the report title with the chapter title in the header (in the form of Title : Chapter). I'd be happy to do this manually if it's easier, but I'm not too sure about adding individual headers manually.


The last semi-related thing is the Contents page. I've heard you can do this in a magical, fancy way, but all I'm concerned about is trying to get everything lined up without affecting the margins of all my other pages or having nasty table boxes around it all. Is it easy to do or will Word just chuck a spaz on me?


I'm sorry, I know there are tutorials on the net, but some of them are difficult to interpret and I have a short attention span and we're all lazy and is that a bunny? So thankyou very much if you answer my queries and/or give links to easy to follow guides.

Answer 1

Regarding the Page x of y, do this:



1.On the Insert tab of the Ribbon, click Page Number in the Header and Footer group.

2.Select Top of Page and pick a format.

3.Click on the page number in the header or footer.

4.Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.

5.Click Quick Parts->Building Blocks Organizer.

6.Click the Category column to sort the categories.

7.Find the Page X of Y category and select a style you like.

8.Click Insert.



To put any other text into the header, double click in the Header on the page and enter the text. Double click outside the header to get out.







Regarding the Table of Contents,



1. Click where you want the Table of Contents to go.

2. Click on the References tab on the Ribbon.

3. Click the Table of Contents Icon.

4. Select Insert Table of Contents near the bottom of the list.

5. Under Print Preview there are a few options you may wish to select or deselect, including one for tab leaders.

6. Click OK.

7. This will insert a table of contents field in your document, but since you don't have any entries, you'll see this message:



Error! No table of contents entries found.



Not to worry. To make entries, you'll have to use Heading styles. Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 are by default collected for the Table of contents, but you can play around and get others also. There's even a way of putting in entries that aren't flagged by style.



The Table of Contents also doesn't continually update itself. You have to tell it to whenever you want it to:



1. Right click in the table and select Update Field.

2. An Update Table of Contents dialog box will appear.

3. Click the Update Entire Field button.

4. Click OK.



Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Hi

Go to page layout tab and then go the the little arrow to the right of page set up. There you will see headers and footers with a check box for different left and right. This gives you alternating headers and H & footers, make a footer for each side.

Once you do that you will have an extra alingmnent choice, to put text inside or outside, inside means it will be near the fold on the open book. Outside away from the centre. Usually, page numbers are place on the outside.

If you want to change information in headers or footer, you need to insert a section break. You will want one at the end of each chapter so you can get different titles in the header. You will also need one before you want your page numbering to start. Choose continuous when you do not want to start a new page. Edit the page number to start at 3, or what ever you want.

You can insert fields to put in title or chapter title, but it might be just as easy to do it manually.



Headers and footer can follow from the previous section or you can break that link.



Table of contents is magical, when it works. You need to format headings using styles, the TOC uses this formating to creat the text in the table. You can choose h1 and h2, more or less. Find it under the Reference Tab, left hand side. It will not affect margins on other pages.



Don't be lazy, do the tutorials, frustration is the enemy, knowledge is the liberator.



Good luck, hope it helps

Answer 3

if it's not a very long report, just do it manually. it'd probably save time than trying to figure out how to auto-format it :/