Your understanding is correct. I can't see why your method wouldn't work
unless you have copied the Header content into the First Page Header.

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"KM1" wrote in message
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My understanding is that when you want to insert a header that will not
appear on the first page but will on all subsequent pages all you need to
do
is: click on view / header - type header on first page / click on page
setup on header toolbar / click on layout tab / click on different first
page
/ apply to whole document / click OK Then the header will appear on
page
2 and on subsequent pages but not on page one. However, when I did this
in a
template I have for work it showed up on all pages. If I pulled up a new
template and tried it again it worked. Is there a better way to set these
up
and is this some type of problem in Word 2003 that causes this to happen
intermitently.

KM1
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