Headers and Footers

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, this is lesson is all about headers and footers.
• 00:07 Basically, a header is any text or
• 00:09 logos or pictures that you would like to put in the top one inch of your margin.
• 00:14 Please take a look on the left-hand edge of my window.
• 00:16 The darkened part of the ruler is the top one inch.
• 00:19 This would be the header location, also known as your top margin.
• 00:23 Of course, the footer is at the bottom.
• 00:25 If I scroll down to the bottom, you can see on the ruler,
• 00:28 I have a bottom one inch, and this would be the footer section.
• 00:31 All right, in order to type into the header,
• 00:33 in my opinion the fastest way is just double-click into that top margin.
• 00:37 Click click, and it pops it open.
• 00:40 My words brightened up, my logo brightened up.
• 00:42 I have a dotted line with a header tag, and all the text down below dimmed down.
• 00:47 Now take your eyes up above to the ribbons.
• 00:48 We have a brand new Header and Footer ribbon.
• 00:50 You'll get very good at watching these ribbons pop up and when they're available,
• 00:54 so pay attention to that all the time.
• 00:56 All right, one of the best buttons here is this Go to Footer button.
• 00:59 This saves me from having to scroll, scroll, scroll to the bottom.
• 01:02 I simply click Go to Footer, and there I am right at the footer.
• 01:06 All right, at this point, I'm gonna go ahead and enter some text, brand new text.
• 01:11 And if I prefer I can enter page numbers.
• 01:14 Right over on the left I have header, I have footer, I have page number, but
• 01:17 we're going to have an entire new lesson about those.
• 01:20 I'm going to pop myself right back up to the Go to Header section, and
• 01:25 I want to show you something else.
• 01:27 I've got a two-page document, I'm gonna hit my Multiple Pages button,
• 01:31 which is already on my Quick Access tool bar, so you can see them side by side.
• 01:35 Now watch what happens when I click on the left-hand GoSkills logo and
• 01:39 drag it over to the center.
• 01:41 Keep your eyes on the right hand side, watch what happens at the same time.
• 01:44 Click and drag, here we go.
• 01:46 You see, these are all linked from page to page to page.
• 01:49 I only have one logo, but you can just see it on multiple pages.
• 01:53 Now what if I can click on this second page one and I move that over?
• 01:56 Take a look on the left.
• 01:57 It's moving along with me, do you see?
• 01:59 It's one image repeated on every page.
• 02:02 Of course there is a way to break that if you need to just switch different logos,
• 02:06 that's an advanced lesson, but for now you just need to understand.
• 02:09 Just put one in there, it will repeat itself on every page.
• 02:12 Now go back to my Single-page view and back to Page one, here we go, and OK.
• 02:20 I'm done with the header for now, so I'm going to double-click out of it.
• 02:23 Down into my document, double-click, and as you can see,
• 02:26 everything dimmed down into my top margin and brightened up in my document.
• 02:31 Please keep in mind, when I print this, everything will be nice and
• 02:33 bright and bold.
• 02:34 It's only dim on your screen in order to identify the header section.
• 02:39 All right, let's do this a different way.
• 02:40 Instead of double-clicking into the top margin, I'm going to click on Insert.
• 02:45 And right over here, I have a wonderful little Header button.
• 02:47 And now I'm going to wipe out my existing header and
• 02:50 replace it with a preformatted one.
• 02:52 When I click there, there you go, I just wiped out everything.
• 02:55 Be aware of that.
• 02:56 It's kind of nice if they're preformatted,
• 02:58 not too nice if you had something in there you really liked, okay?
• 03:01 So just be aware of that.
• 03:03 All right, we're gonna stay here just for a moment,
• 03:06 'cause I'm gonna show you the Header Footer design ribbon,
• 03:08 it's worth taking a look at all of these items again.
• 03:11 We will have a new lesson on page numbers, the date and time,
• 03:14 maybe I will like to enter the date and time, we'll just put April 2019.
• 03:19 Let's see, and it turned red.
• 03:21 You can still use all the home ribbon formatting tools.
• 03:24 You're not stuck with any color that's already there.
• 03:27 Go ahead an use your other tools, but
• 03:29 then just get yourself back to the header-footer design tools.
• 03:32 I can put document info, quick parts, pictures, many,
• 03:35 many different options in here.
• 03:37 I can go to the previous header, I could go to the next header.
• 03:41 But one of the most important things right up here is the position and
• 03:44 that of course the close header footer.
• 03:46 The position's kinda nice because you can actually determine how far
• 03:49 away from the edge of the paper you want this to print.
• 03:52 So I can enter .25, a quarter of an inch is about that limit.
• 03:55 That's the closest most printers will print from an edge of a piece of paper.
• 03:59 And then watch what happens when I click off of this.
• 04:03 Everything shifted.
• 04:04 See my date shifted up and my ruler shifted.
• 04:06 Now I'm gonna go put it back to .5 and
• 04:09 watch what happens, it moves down again, you see.
• 04:12 All right, I'll go ahead and close the header that's it for now,
• 04:15 we'll see you in the next lesson.
• 04:17 Thank you.

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