Writing a longer essay or dissertation that is broken up into several sections? In that case, you might want to add chapter headers to help your reader navigate the document.
Luckily, this is easy to do in Microsoft Word, as we will now explain.
Microsoft Word uses the ‘Heading’ styles to generate chapter headers. As such, the first step in adding chapter headers to your document is formatting your headings. To do this:
The ‘Styles’ gallery.
You don’t have to use ‘Heading 1’ for this (any ‘Heading’ style will do). But usually you would use ‘Heading 1’ for the main headings in your document, which are the ones you’ll use in headers.
The next step is to add section breaks between chapters. This involves:
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The ‘Breaks’ menu.
Once you have done this, each chapter in your document should start on a new page.
You are now ready to add headers to your document! Hooray! Before we get carried away, though, you need to make sure each section in the document is separate. To do this:
Navigation options.
Now, Microsoft Word will know where each chapter starts and ends. As such, you can apply distinct chapter headers to each section. All you need to do is:
Adding headers.
This will add a header throughout the section selected. If you repeat this for each chapter, you’ll have a nicely formatted document at the end of it. Just remember that these headers don’t update automatically. As such, if you change a heading, you’ll need to update the header, too.
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