Headers and Footers

Quick reference

• 00:04 Using headers and footers in documents is one of the most
• 00:07 common things you will be doing inside most of your documents.
• 00:11 Please look at the top of my exercise document.
• 00:13 You'll see kind of a dimmed down GoSkills logo and
• 00:17 then on the left some text, Enter Date Here.
• 00:20 If I scroll to the bottom you'll see the GoSkills website, also dimmed down.
• 00:25 If I print these, they'll be full brightness.
• 00:28 But that's my indicator right now that those aren't part of my document.
• 00:31 They're sitting in the background as a header footer in my document.
• 00:35 Now, the fastest way to get into a header footer,
• 00:37 just move your mouse into that top margin of your document and double click.
• 00:41 Right away, a couple things happened.
• 00:43 You can see that the logo is bright, the text is dark,
• 00:47 became full black, but my document dimmed down.
• 00:51 I also have a guideline across, marked as the header.
• 00:54 Another thing that happened is a Header Footer ribbon up on top.
• 00:56 Notice on the far right side I can close Header Footer just by hitting that X.
• 01:02 Another way to close it is just double click in the document,
• 01:06 that closed it as well.
• 01:08 All right, I want to go right back there, but a different way.
• 01:11 I'm going to go to the Insert ribbon and over on the right hand side,
• 01:14 there's a Header Footer section.
• 01:16 And I can click on Header and choose any one of these I want,
• 01:20 noting that by choosing one of these, it will overwrite what you have.
• 01:25 Instead, I'm going to come down here to Edit Header and it opened it up.
• 01:29 That's why I think a double click is much faster than that.
• 01:32 Another way to use this ribbon to your advantage is right up here,
• 01:36 we have a Go to Footer button.
• 01:38 When I activate that, it zips me right down to my footer.
• 01:42 Go to Header zips me right back up to the top.
• 01:46 Notice we have Previous and Next because you can break a document into sections,
• 01:50 and you can have different headers for different sections.
• 01:53 That's an advanced lesson that we'll cover later on.
• 01:56 Check out right over here, we have a Dte and Time button.
• 02:00 So I'm going to select the Enter Date Here, just this text.
• 02:04 Now if I go too far and grab that space bar behind it,
• 02:08 it also will wipe out my logo.
• 02:10 So very carefully I only want to select just the text.
• 02:15 Now I can come up to Date Time, choose whichever time stamp I prefer, and hit OK.
• 02:22 Let's take a look at multiple pages.
• 02:24 This is a two page document.
• 02:26 I'm going to click on multiple pages.
• 02:28 Now my entire document is wide open to my headers and footers.
• 02:31 The indicator of course says headers.
• 02:34 Watch what happens when I reposition the logo.
• 02:36 Select it once, click and drag it.
• 02:38 Notice it's moving on both sides.
• 02:41 I can come to the one on the right.
• 02:43 It's moving on both sides.
• 02:45 You see, those are linked.
• 02:46 They're not two separate logos on each page.
• 02:49 No, they are linked.
• 02:50 So one logo will spill through the entire document until I tell it not to.
• 02:55 Same story with the footers.
• 02:57 Whatever I type on one page, like a page number, will show up on all pages.
• 03:06 Now we have an upcoming lesson on page numbers that'll be better than that one,
• 03:10 but real quickly, that's how you put a page number in.
• 03:13 Okay, I'm going to go back to my header.
• 03:16 In order to put a picture or a logo into a header, you activate the header area.
• 03:21 You come up to Pictures and you select your pictures.
• 03:23 But after your picture is selected, we can edit that picture because your
• 03:28 normal picture ribbon will appear up on top.
• 03:31 So I can actually edit this picture right now, change coloring,
• 03:35 change the border of it, do anything I want to it, crop it.
• 03:39 So it's very interesting.
• 03:40 No matter what you put inside your headers,
• 03:43 you still have full use of all the other ribbons while you're inside that header.
• 03:47 All right, that's it for this lesson on headers.
• 03:50 To activate my document again, just double click inside the document.
• 03:54 The headers go dim, the document brightens up.
• 03:57 That's it.

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