
Place your cursor wherever you want to create a section break (typically this will be at the end of a page), and then switch to the “Layout” tab on the Ribbon. RELATED: How to Use Breaks in Microsoft Word to Better Format Your Documents That said, you can still create sections in an existing document, and the process is the same. This often prevents the weird layout glitches you can get (and then have to resolve) when sectioning an already full document. Personally, I find it easiest to think about the document ahead of time and create all the sections I need before I start populating the document.

Whatever your reasons, the trick is to create different sections where you want the headers and footers to look different. For example, maybe you want your introduction and table of contents pages numbered with Roman numerals, but the main text of your document numbered with Arabic numerals.


There are all kinds of reasons you might want to do this. If you want to change headers and footers within the document any more than we’ve already covered, you’ll have to break your document into sections. Unfortunately, that’s where the easy control of headers and footers in Word ends. Create Different Headers and Footers for Different Sections of Your Document
