Headers and footers are groups of information set apart from the body of your document. Headers are located at the top of a page while footers are set at the bottom of a page. Headers and footers can make your document more user-friendly, and make it look polished and professional. They can also save you a lot of time, as you can make one header or footer look exactly how you want and then those changes will be applied to headers and footers throughout the whole document. For example, the title of a book appearing at the top of every page would probably be set as a header.

Headers and footers are easy to create and edit. However, there are a lot of options you can customize, so we’re going to spend this entire lesson just on headers and footers.