In the File Page Setup dialog, go to the Layout tab and check "Different
first page". That creates a separate header and footer for the first page,
and they'll be empty unless you put something there.

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oblivious wrote:
i have a title on my first page, i want that title to be on every
other page as a header, when i do this the header and title are on
the first page. I want to eliminate the header on the first page and
have it continuous for the second page on. how do i do this?