Word: header only on the first page - how it works

You only need the header on the first page in the Word document. In this article, we show you how to set this up at Office Online.

How to set up the header in Word

With "Office Online" from Microsoft you can create and edit free Word documents in the browser.

• First open the document.
• Go to the "Insert" tab at the top and select "Header and footer".
• With "Options" you define that the first page should be different. The corresponding command is "First page different".
• Now enter the text you want in the header of the first page.
• Leave the header for the other pages completely blank.
• Now the header is only inserted on the first page.
• With the offline program, you also first insert the header and footer and then define the header using the "Layout" tab.
• Illustrated instructions can be found in the picture gallery.

If you find it difficult to insert page numbers, we have a tip for you: We will show you in our next article how you can only display the page numbers from page 3 onwards.

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In the opened Word document, first click on "Paste".

With a further click on "Header and Footer" you can now insert this into the entire document.

If you now go to "Options", you can determine the properties of the header and footer.

Select "First page different".

Now you can define both the first and the remaining pages. If you simply leave the area blank for the remaining pages, the header will not be inserted there, or will be inserted blank.