First, you’ll need to make sure that each Chapter is a separate section. To make a section go to the Layout tab and select Breaks. From the drop down menu select one of the Section Breaks. Next Page will probably be the easiest to work with.

Next to to the Insert tab and select Header. Once in the Header & Footer tab type Chapter where you want it to show up, left-aligned, centered, etc. Add a space and then select Quick Parts and Field. From the Categories on the left pane select Numbering and then Section . Choose the “1, 2, 3…” format in the right pane.

Finally to get the border, while still in the header, go to the Design tab and select Page Borders on the right hand side. At the top of the Page Border, select the Borders tab and then select the bottom line in the preview box.

The above is a “simple” answer. Somethings the results may be unexpected because you have extra sections, or you may have Chapter 1 in the table of contents, etc. You may need to customize your fields to get exactly what you’d like. See this article on creating custom fields for chapters. [ https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Using_fields_instead_of_outline_numbering_for_chapter_numbers ]

The better program is the one you find most useful.

I used to swear by Microsoft Office, and particularly Microsoft Word. But even when I used the program, I acknowledged that 99% of users only use about 20% of the program.

I switched to Apple Pages years ago and now I don’t even have any Microsoft applications on my hard drive. Apple Pages is intuitive to use, and I have yet to encounter a feature I would use in Word that is lacking in Pages. It is also free since it is already installed on new Macs.

So let’s see: a very capable word processor that also does page layout, is compatible with Microsoft Word documents and is free; versus a program with tons of features I’ll never use, a more complicated interface, and costs hundreds of dollars a year. No contest.

So for my needs, Apple Pages is better than Microsoft Word.

By “header”, do you mean the title of your document, or a heading within the document? Either way, if you use styles, this is a very easy task with field codes.

In Word, page numbers are the result of a “page” field code. To have Word automatically insert the content of a particular named style, you can use the “styleref” field code. If this field code is included in a page header, the header will change automatically as pages have new content using the referenced style.

For example, you could use it to display the chapter name with the page number at the top of each page, or use two “styleref” field codes to include the chapter name and the current subheading (as is often done in manuals). The big advantage of this approach is that you don’t need to alter the headers if edits change the content of a referenced style; the header always displays the current content.

For your question, let’s assume your document begins with a title set with the “Heading 1” style (Ctrl-Alt-1 will apply the style for you). You want to have it included in a page header with the page number on all pages after the first one as in the screen shot below.

Here’s how to do it.

1. Open the Page Setup dialog (Layout tab %3E bottom right of Page setup group or double-click the vertical ruler), and in the Layout tab, turn on the “Different first page” checkbox. This will allow you to have headers on all pages except the first one. 2. Double-click in the page header area (or use Insert %3E Header). The pages will show a dotted line with a shaded box to show the areas for the different headers. Leave the First Page Header empty, and click in the Header area of page 2. 3. From the Insert ribbon’s Text group, click Quick Parts %3E Field… to bring up the Field dialog. Scroll down the field name list to select “StyleRef”. From the Field properties list, select “Heading 1” and click OK. The content of your Heading 1 will appear. In my example, I added space-dash-space before the page number, but you could use spaces, a colon or other elements as a separator. To insert the page number, press Shift-Alt-P. This shortcut sequence inserts the “page” field code, but you’ll see it as the current page number. 4. Apply other formatting you may need for the header. In my example, I pressed Ctrl-R to align the header to the right side so the page number will show on the right side of each page. Click the “Close Header and Footer” button (or double-click in the page content area) to close the Header. To see how the StyleRef field code works, make an edit to the content of your Heading 1 and use File %3E Print to preview the pages. The edit will appear in the page header.

Tip: I always recommend turning on field shading to show when content is being inserted by a field code (rather than just being typed). In addition to elements like page numbers and the style reference example here, Word’s table of contents, index and cross references all use field codes — and being able to see that their content is generated makes it more obvious that it can’t be edited like “normal” text. To turn on field code shading, use File %3E Options %3E Advanced %3E Show document content, and set “Field shading:” to “Always”. This will add a light grey shading behind any content that is the result of a field code. The grey won’t print; it is just shown on the screen display.

You can toggle between the field codes and their results by pressing Alt-F9. Field codes are always enclosed within braces as shown below.

Both.

I outline the entire book before I start, and then outline in more detail a few chapters ahead, but that still leaves a lot of space to write page by page. Very often things happen as I write, or I realise a character would not have done what I had imagined, and I have to work with that.

Sorry Dave, 50-pages is nonsense.

I’ve created Word documents with hundreds of pages: most usually academic works, but also quite complex reports (400–500 pages). And they’re solid.

Word crashed a lot pre-2007, but since they switched to the xml format it’s infinitely more reliable.

Yes, crashes happen, but in terms of regularity, nowhere near.

More specifically, with master and sub-documents. Pre-Word 2007 it wasn’t a case of ‘if’, rather ‘when’. They were a nightmare.

Given the advances in size and speed, the only logical reason I can think of for creating master/subs is collaboration.

However, if you do that… then yeah, it’s going to happen. It’s a function that Word should retire. And fast.

As such, if that’s what you need to do, I’d advise just writing the variations in Word/Notepad, whatever, and then, when it’s complete, give it to your formatter to make it brand-compatible.

If you don’t, you’re wasting your time.

Word IS about styles.

Set the styles up correctly and you’re laughing.

Once example is for a thesis I did…

I was contacted because the lady’s file size was huge/Word was so bloated (around 25 MB), that she couldn’t even open the document on her computer.

I managed to get into the document and could examine what she’d done. The entire 321 pages was formatted in the Normal style!

I extracted the text, redefined the style set, and rebuilt the document.

The end result was under 900kb. It opened fine.

My wife’s Masters’ thesis (3 years ago), was 300 pages. It was under 800kb in size (attached).

There is no realistic page limit, but if Word is struggling at the 50-page mark, then the error isn’t within Word.

The other answers are good but they didn’t have this little trick.

Make a new line by hitting Enter/Return.

Type three dashes/hyphens and hit Enter/Return again. Word will automatically convert that into a line. Quora does it too. Check it out below.

I hope this helps.

Use Section Breaks.

* Open a document with multiple pages. * Double click on header area to insert a header (or use Insert Tab). * Go the page after which you want a different header and insert a section break. * After the section break is inserted, go to the next page and double click the header area to start editing. Notice that small text beneath the header area will start saying “Header-Section 2-” now. * Before making any changes to header text, unselect the option Link to Previous under Header & Footer Tools tab. * Now edit the header text and get out of it. * You will see that from that page onwards, you have a different header.

You need to take advantage of Word’s powerful “sections” capabilities.

By default every Word document has at least one section, with an empty page header and footer. If you create a page header (and/or footer), it will appear on every page. That may be fine for a plain memo, but it is pretty lame for a report.

Tip: make life easier for yourself by right-clicking the status bar at the bottom of the screen and checking the “Formatted page number” and “Section” options to show these for the current selection always displayed in your status bar.

To get the headers you want…

* Type in the content of your cover page and, instead of pressing Ctrl-Enter or using Insert | Page Break to get a page break to start your outline, use the Layout ribbon’s Page Setup | Breaks pull-down to choose “Next Page” (from the Section Break list). Type in your outline copy and then add another Next Page section break before starting to type your main content. (Note: If you have your copy already typed in, you can just select and delete the page breaks and then use the above to insert the section breaks.) You’ll now have 3 sections in your document.

* Now click within the start of your outline content. You can either double-click in the header area or use the Insert ribbon’s Header & Footer | Header to create the heading you want. However before you type anything, first click the “Link to Previous” button in the Navigation part of the Header and Footer Tools ribbon to disconnect the header from the previous one (i.e. the cover page in your case). If you don’t do this, the heading you create for your outline will be used for the previous section (your cover page). The “Same as Previous” label will disappear to indicate that this heading will start a new series. * Type in what you need — “McCabe–” and use Page Number %3E Current Position for including the page number. However, the page number being displayed in your new heading will be “2”. As well, the status bar will report that your selection is on PAGE: 2 of Section:2 and Page 2 of x (where “x” is the total number of pages in your document) — but you want it to be page “i”.

* To adjust this, choose “Format Page Number” from the Insert ribbon’s Header & Footer | Page Number pull-down. In the top part, change the number format to “i, ii, iii, …” and, in the bottom part of this dialog, change the page numbering to start at i. When you click OK, you’ll see that the status bar will now show that you are on PAGE: i of Section: 2 and Page 2 of x — and your header will now show the page number as “i”. Now move the cursor to the beginning of your main article. Your header will now show an Arabic number (≥3) and the status bar will show PAGE: 3 (or greater) and Section: 3.

* To reset the page number to 1 for this section, use the Page Number Format dialog (as above from Insert | Header & Footer | Page Number pull-down) to set the Page numbering to Start at: 1. * The page numbering format is part of the section definition, so if you later add another section break — say to start a 2nd chapter — you will need to use the Page Number Format dialog again to reset the numbering to “Continue from previous section”. If you don’t the new section will also begin as page 1. Be aware that the above covers just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to managing pagination in a Word document. You can have different first page headers & footers, different headers & footers for odd and even pages; automatically include chapter titles in headers and footers; and much more. Read up on Word sections, page setup, and Word’s field codes to learn more.

You can insert a page border in Microsoft Word using following simple and easy steps:

1. Open your Word document. Double-click the Word document to which you want to add borders. This will open the document in Microsoft Word. 2. Click the Home tab. It's at the top of the Word window. Doing so will open the correct toolbar here. 3. Select content. Click and drag your mouse across the text or image(s) around which you want to place a border. 4. Find the "Borders" button. This button resembles a square divided into four smaller squares; you'll find it in the "Paragraph" section of options in the toolbar, just right of the paint bucket icon. 5. Click (dropdown) next to the "Borders" button. This downward-facing arrow is to the right of the "Borders" button. Clicking it prompts a drop-down menu. 6. Click Borders and Shading…. It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu. 7. Select a border setting. In the left-most column, click the border option that you want to use. 8. Select a border style. In the "Style" column, scroll down until you find the border style you want to use, then click the style. 9. Click OK. It's at the bottom of the window. Doing so will apply your border to the selected text or picture.

How can I put multiple headers in same word document?

Probably — but it depends on what you mean by “multiple headers”.

Word’s headers (and footers) are associated with sections, so you can have different headers and footers for each section. You can create headers and/or footers for all pages, odd pages, even pages and/or first pages of any given section.

A header (or footer) can be more than one line. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be text: an image or graphic can be defined in a header or footer — and if you position it within a text box or as an object, it can appear anywhere on the page (including “under” the text, floating “over” the text, or having the text wrap around it.

With field codes, you can construct a header (or footer) to automatically include content from your document (such as the chapter title, or the first and last names on the page for ‘dictionary’ style headers). You could also have a header (or footer) bring in content from another file automatically.

So yes, a Word document can have multiple headers — but if none of the above quite address what you need, you’ll need to clarify your question.