You should not need any page breaks at all. Let your document flow
continuously until you want to repeat the first page header or change the
headers entirely; then insert a section break; this will give you something
like this (page numbers are arbitrary):

Page 1: First Page Header
Pages 2-5: Header
===Section Break===
Page 6: First Page Header (can be the same as the one in Section 1 or
different)
Pages 7-10: Header (can be the same or different).

If you want the First Page Header and/or the Header in Section 2 to be
different from the one(s) in Section 1, you need to unlink the sections by
clicking on the "Link to Previous" or "Same as Previous" button on the
Header and Footer toolbar (to turn it off). For the pages after the first in
any section, you can also have different headers for the odd and even pages
if you like. For more, see
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/HeaderFooter.htm

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"Dave" wrote in message
...
I am confused. I went back and on the first header I checked first page
different box and went and inserted a page break at the end of each page
and
deleted the continuous section breaks I inserted. The first page
Header(which
is different from the rest of the pages) didn't change untill I deleted
the
4th page section break and now that got rid of all my headers and changed
the
first page header to the other page headers. I'm pretty sure I have to
insert
a section break somewhere in order to keep my first page header from
changing?? and then do I insert page breaks after each page untill the
very
last page where my footer changes and I unclick the (same as previous) and
check from this point forward box.??
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I think you're still confused. Enabling "Different first page" gives you
a
separate First Page Header which appears only on the first page of a
section. The primary Header then appears on pages 2 and following. You
*can*
make your last-page footer different as well, but you will need a
conditional field:

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "Text you want to appear on the last
page" }

For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm

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"Dave" wrote in message
...
My 1st page header is different from the next 4, even if I check
(different
first page) and if I don't put a Continuous section break there I'll
loose
my
first page header or I'll loose them all when I put a page break
there.
My last page footer is different from the previous 4 and without a
section
break I can't make the last one different. It's very frustrating....

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Generally it's not a good idea to have section breaks at the end of
each
page--this is one of the reasons why--all it takes is one fatter
character
for Word to decide the page will no longer break at the same place
where
you
put the section break. This page explains a little more of the
principle,
if not your exact situation.
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TextReflow.htm

And the reason you give for having section breaks at the end of
every
page
doesn't make any sense at all, as without section breaks, the
headers
and
footers will stay the same.


On 3/10/05 1:47 PM, "Dave" wrote:

I'll work on a Document with different Headers and footers put in
section
breaks at the end of each page (so my headers and footers don't
change) and
save it, then go open it and the section breaks are in the wrong
places or
there is added returns at certain places. So I have to do it all
over
again
and the same thing happens. Not on all documents but many of them.

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