[bigminisachin1231]

My English teacher, following MLA strictly his way, says that he only wants
there to be a header if my document has more than one page in it. If it does
have multiple pages, then there should be a header on all pages, INCLUDING
the first page. Is there any way to auto set this on the Normal Template? I
use Word 2007.

[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:24:00 -0700, bigminisachin1231
wrote:

My English teacher, following MLA strictly his way, says that he only wants
there to be a header if my document has more than one page in it. If it does
have multiple pages, then there should be a header on all pages, INCLUDING
the first page. Is there any way to auto set this on the Normal Template? I
use Word 2007.

That can be done.

First, if you ever use the Labels dialog in Word, then _don't_ do this
in the Normal.dotm template. Make a new template and modify that
instead, and use that template for your school papers, keeping Normal
unchanged.

Use the Open command on the Office button (or Ctrl+O) to get the Open
dialog, click Trusted Templates at the upper left, and choose
Normal.dotm to open. Or, preferably, create a new document and save
it, choosing "Word template (*.dotx)" as the type and saving it in the
Trusted Templates folder.

To do what you need to do, you must temporarily have at least two
pages, so press Ctrl+Enter to insert a page break. Leave the cursor on
page 2.

On the Page Layout ribbon, click the little button at the bottom right
of the Page Setup group to open the dialog. Click the Layout tab and
check the "Different first page" option. Click OK.

On the Insert ribbon, click the Header button and choose Edit Header
at the bottom of the gallery. The cursor goes into the header pane;
notice the tag that says "Header". Insert whatever text you want to
appear on page 2 and following pages when needed. Select that text and
copy it to the clipboard.

On the Header & Footer Tools Design ribbon, in the Navigation group,
click the Previous Section button. The cursor goes to the First Page
Header. Paste in the text from the clipboard. Type a double-quote
character before and after the text.

Move the cursor to the left of that text and type in this expression:

if numpages = 1 ""

followed by a space. Select the word numpages and press Ctrl+F9 to
enter field braces around it. Then select the entire line (excluding
the paragraph mark) and press Ctrl+F9 again. The whole thing should
look something like this:

{if {numpages} = 1 "" "This is the header"}

Press F9 to update the field, and you should see just the text.

Finally, double-click outside the header area to close the header
pane, and delete the page break to make the template one page. Either
double-click in the header or go to Print Preview and back to update
the field in the first page header, which should disappear. Save the
template.

When you make a document based on the template, there won't be
anything visible in the header until the document grows to two pages,
and then there will be text in both headers.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

[bigminisachin1231]

THANKS so much! This is a really useful setting for anyone whose teacher
needs them to follow MLA formatting styles very carefully.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:24:00 -0700, bigminisachin1231
wrote:

My English teacher, following MLA strictly his way, says that he only wants
there to be a header if my document has more than one page in it. If it does
have multiple pages, then there should be a header on all pages, INCLUDING
the first page. Is there any way to auto set this on the Normal Template? I
use Word 2007.

That can be done.

First, if you ever use the Labels dialog in Word, then _don't_ do this
in the Normal.dotm template. Make a new template and modify that
instead, and use that template for your school papers, keeping Normal
unchanged.

Use the Open command on the Office button (or Ctrl+O) to get the Open
dialog, click Trusted Templates at the upper left, and choose
Normal.dotm to open. Or, preferably, create a new document and save
it, choosing "Word template (*.dotx)" as the type and saving it in the
Trusted Templates folder.

To do what you need to do, you must temporarily have at least two
pages, so press Ctrl+Enter to insert a page break. Leave the cursor on
page 2.

On the Page Layout ribbon, click the little button at the bottom right
of the Page Setup group to open the dialog. Click the Layout tab and
check the "Different first page" option. Click OK.

On the Insert ribbon, click the Header button and choose Edit Header
at the bottom of the gallery. The cursor goes into the header pane;
notice the tag that says "Header". Insert whatever text you want to
appear on page 2 and following pages when needed. Select that text and
copy it to the clipboard.

On the Header & Footer Tools Design ribbon, in the Navigation group,
click the Previous Section button. The cursor goes to the First Page
Header. Paste in the text from the clipboard. Type a double-quote
character before and after the text.

Move the cursor to the left of that text and type in this expression:

if numpages = 1 ""

followed by a space. Select the word numpages and press Ctrl+F9 to
enter field braces around it. Then select the entire line (excluding
the paragraph mark) and press Ctrl+F9 again. The whole thing should
look something like this:

{if {numpages} = 1 "" "This is the header"}

Press F9 to update the field, and you should see just the text.

Finally, double-click outside the header area to close the header
pane, and delete the page break to make the template one page. Either
double-click in the header or go to Print Preview and back to update
the field in the first page header, which should disappear. Save the
template.

When you make a document based on the template, there won't be
anything visible in the header until the document grows to two pages,
and then there will be text in both headers.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You really *don't* want a different first page header in this situation
since the header is to be the same on all pages. That being the case, you
don't need to have two pages in the template in order to set it up, though
you will have to add a page to see the result.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:24:00 -0700, bigminisachin1231
wrote:

My English teacher, following MLA strictly his way, says that he only
wants
there to be a header if my document has more than one page in it. If it
does
have multiple pages, then there should be a header on all pages,
INCLUDING
the first page. Is there any way to auto set this on the Normal Template?
I
use Word 2007.

That can be done.

First, if you ever use the Labels dialog in Word, then _don't_ do this
in the Normal.dotm template. Make a new template and modify that
instead, and use that template for your school papers, keeping Normal
unchanged.

Use the Open command on the Office button (or Ctrl+O) to get the Open
dialog, click Trusted Templates at the upper left, and choose
Normal.dotm to open. Or, preferably, create a new document and save
it, choosing "Word template (*.dotx)" as the type and saving it in the
Trusted Templates folder.

To do what you need to do, you must temporarily have at least two
pages, so press Ctrl+Enter to insert a page break. Leave the cursor on
page 2.

On the Page Layout ribbon, click the little button at the bottom right
of the Page Setup group to open the dialog. Click the Layout tab and
check the "Different first page" option. Click OK.

On the Insert ribbon, click the Header button and choose Edit Header
at the bottom of the gallery. The cursor goes into the header pane;
notice the tag that says "Header". Insert whatever text you want to
appear on page 2 and following pages when needed. Select that text and
copy it to the clipboard.

On the Header & Footer Tools Design ribbon, in the Navigation group,
click the Previous Section button. The cursor goes to the First Page
Header. Paste in the text from the clipboard. Type a double-quote
character before and after the text.

Move the cursor to the left of that text and type in this expression:

if numpages = 1 ""

followed by a space. Select the word numpages and press Ctrl+F9 to
enter field braces around it. Then select the entire line (excluding
the paragraph mark) and press Ctrl+F9 again. The whole thing should
look something like this:

{if {numpages} = 1 "" "This is the header"}

Press F9 to update the field, and you should see just the text.

Finally, double-click outside the header area to close the header
pane, and delete the page break to make the template one page. Either
double-click in the header or go to Print Preview and back to update
the field in the first page header, which should disappear. Save the
template.

When you make a document based on the template, there won't be
anything visible in the header until the document grows to two pages,
and then there will be text in both headers.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.