[Pat Richards]

My company has traditionally used Word Perfect but has recently purchased
Office 2007.

We create our own letterhead in WP which we have been also able to do with
Word. Our problem is that in WP you can discontinue a header so it doesn't
appear on your second and consecutive pages. I have looked everywhere but
cannot find a way to turn the header off after the first page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[DougieVan]

When you click in the header region, the Header & Footer Tools Design tab
should appear in the ribbon. One of the sections is called Options. One of
those options is "Different First Page."

Doug


--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

My company has traditionally used Word Perfect but has recently purchased
Office 2007.

We create our own letterhead in WP which we have been also able to do with
Word. Our problem is that in WP you can discontinue a header so it doesn't
appear on your second and consecutive pages. I have looked everywhere but
cannot find a way to turn the header off after the first page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Pat Richards[_2_]]

I tried that prior to asking the question and what happens is this -

If I click in the header section on page 2 and put a check mark in the box
beside different first page, my first page header disappears instead of page
2 header disappearing.

[DougieVan]

Once you check that box, there is a new field created, called "First Page
Header" (and "First Page Footer"). So, what you already had in your header is
still in the "Header" field. Just copy it over to the "First Page Header" on
the first page.
--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

I tried that prior to asking the question and what happens is this -

If I click in the header section on page 2 and put a check mark in the box
beside different first page, my first page header disappears instead of page
2 header disappearing.

[Pat Richards[_2_]]

Does this not seem a little cumbersome?? It's not a matter of just copying
over the header information to make my first page correct, I then have to
copy everything that is included in a sidebar text box. Perhaps we should
stay with WP for its simplicity!

"DougieVan" wrote:

Once you check that box, there is a new field created, called "First Page
Header" (and "First Page Footer"). So, what you already had in your header is
still in the "Header" field. Just copy it over to the "First Page Header" on
the first page.
--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

I tried that prior to asking the question and what happens is this -

If I click in the header section on page 2 and put a check mark in the box
beside different first page, my first page header disappears instead of page
2 header disappearing.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

No, you have to set the letterhead up this way from the get-go; see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm. Now that you know about
the "Different first page" option, you select that option before going to
the trouble of creating the letterhead, and you do it in the First Page
Header.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"Pat Richards" wrote in message
...
Does this not seem a little cumbersome?? It's not a matter of just
copying
over the header information to make my first page correct, I then have to
copy everything that is included in a sidebar text box. Perhaps we should
stay with WP for its simplicity!

"DougieVan" wrote:

Once you check that box, there is a new field created, called "First
Page
Header" (and "First Page Footer"). So, what you already had in your
header is
still in the "Header" field. Just copy it over to the "First Page
Header" on
the first page.
--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

I tried that prior to asking the question and what happens is this -

If I click in the header section on page 2 and put a check mark in the
box
beside different first page, my first page header disappears instead
of page
2 header disappearing.

[DougieVan]

No, it does not sound cumbersome to me. Once you figure out the
functionality, it is rather easy. And, if you ever need to programmatically
access the header fields, the way they are handled with Word 2007 is very
convenient (the headers are stored as XML files compressed in the document).
How cumbersome the program is depends on what you already know and what you
are trying to do.

But it doesn't matter to me what program you use, so good luck either way!

Doug


--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

Does this not seem a little cumbersome?? It's not a matter of just copying
over the header information to make my first page correct, I then have to
copy everything that is included in a sidebar text box. Perhaps we should
stay with WP for its simplicity!

"DougieVan" wrote:

Once you check that box, there is a new field created, called "First Page
Header" (and "First Page Footer"). So, what you already had in your header is
still in the "Header" field. Just copy it over to the "First Page Header" on
the first page.
--
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Office System Solutions Specialist
3Sharp
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/


"Pat Richards" wrote:

I tried that prior to asking the question and what happens is this -

If I click in the header section on page 2 and put a check mark in the box
beside different first page, my first page header disappears instead of page
2 header disappearing.

[parkin_m]

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"Pat Richards" wrote:

My company has traditionally used Word Perfect but has recently purchased
Office 2007.

We create our own letterhead in WP which we have been also able to do with
Word. Our problem is that in WP you can discontinue a header so it doesn't
appear on your second and consecutive pages. I have looked everywhere but
cannot find a way to turn the header off after the first page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Page Layout tab, click the Page Setup launcher (lower right corner of the
Page Setup section). In the Layout tab, click to enable Different first
page.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"parkin_m" wrote in message
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"Pat Richards" wrote:

My company has traditionally used Word Perfect but has recently purchased
Office 2007.

We create our own letterhead in WP which we have been also able to do
with
Word. Our problem is that in WP you can discontinue a header so it
doesn't
appear on your second and consecutive pages. I have looked everywhere
but
cannot find a way to turn the header off after the first page.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.