

Add a dividing line and extra spacing to the header That’s it for the main setup… click into the body part of the document if you’ve finished, or read on for some more things you can do to set up a decent looking and functional header.

On the Insert tab, click Table and then click the box corresponding to the last cell for the number of rows and columns for your header.Double-click in the empty area near the top of the page where the header will go.Here’s a very basic set of steps for setting up a header in Word 2007 and later you can use the same steps for setting up a footer.

And if they are set up correctly, changing a page margin setting should automatically change the width of the header to match. Tables in headers/footers also let you easily have multiple lines of text - something that can be painful to achieve when using normal paragraphs and tabs. And with table cells controlling the alignment, you should be able to avoid using tabs altogether. Tables allow you to set up text and images in individual cells without affecting anything in the other cells. There’s a simple method for setting up headers and footers that are a little more complex than those provided by Word - use tables! (Before using tables, check out the supplied header/footer options in Word 2007 under the Insert tab > Header or Footer - one of them may suit you perfectly.) You get it all sorted, then decide to change the page margins a little and now everything’s out of whack again. You want to set up your own headers and footers, but you’re having trouble getting the center and right tabs to align properly, and the logo won’t stay put either.
