Q&A for How to Insert a Custom Header or Footer in Microsoft Word

There are pre-designed footers like this available. If this is not in your list, simply select a footer design that has two text fields on the left and right. Then go to "edit footer" mode and put the name on the left. Select the text field on the right. In the "Header & Footer Tools" tab, select "Quick Parts." From the dropdown, select "Fields." This will open a dialog box. Select "Page" from the field names list. Select a page number format and click "OK." You will get an updating page number field on the right.

Go to Edit Footer, and place your cursor somewhere in the first line of words you have in the footer. Select the "Home" tab. In the "Paragraph" section, select the "Borders" dropdown. From the dropdown menu, select "Top Border", and you will get a border above the footer.

Double click on the line, or right click it and select "Format Horizontal Line" to get the dialog box with edit options.

Highlight all the text in the header. Select the "Headers" dropdown in the "Headers & Footers" tab. Select "Save Selection to Header Gallery." Enter a name for your header and click save. Your header will now appear in the dropdown list.

The steps about above explain how to create a custom footer. Simply follow the article instructions. Double click into the footer, insert your logo. You could alternatively have stationery printed professionally with a header and footers on the paper. All your documents and correspondence could be printed onto it.

To have a different header on each page you'll need to add a section break to every page. You can use a Page Break, New Section or a Section Break. If each page of your document is a different Section of the document, you can give every section a different header. Remember to unlink the headers from each other.

Save your document. Double click into the header, delete any content. Double click into the footer, delete any content. Set the header and footers to the minimum size possible. Save the document. You can't not have headers or footers at all, you can only have tiny ones with no contents. By saving before and after your changes, you can close without saving before you're done if you make an error.

If you want one page in your document to not have either a header or a footer, you'll need to make that page a Section using section breaks. You'll need to delete the footer and header content from the page/section then replace it for any pages after that page that do need a header and/or footer.