Problem with headers in Microsoft Word

In my version of MS Word, View > Header and Footer > Page Setup (the little "open book" icon halfway along the toolbar) > tick Different first page ...stops the header from showing on the first page. But there's no way I know of to display different headers in the same document.

-Derek

Here's the instructions from Word help:

You can leave the header or footer (header and footer: A header, which can consist of text or graphics, appears at the top of every page in a section. A footer appears at the bottom of every page. Headers and footers often contain page numbers, chapter titles, dates, and author names.) off the first page or create a unique first page header or footer for the first page in a document or the first page of each section within a document.

If your document is divided into sections (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options. You create a new section when you want to change such properties as line numbering, number of columns, or headers and footers.), click in a section or select multiple sections you want to change. Click anywhere if your document is not divided into sections.

On the View menu, click Header and Footer.

On the Header and Footer toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), click Page Setup .

Click the Layout tab.

Select the Different first page check box, and then click OK.

If necessary, click Show Previous or Show Next on the Header and Footer toolbar to move into the First Page Header area or First Page Footer area.

Create the header or footer for the first page of the document or section.
If you don't want a header or footer on the first page, leave the header and footer areas blank.

To move to the header or footer for the rest of the document or section, click Show Next on the Header and Footer toolbar. Then create the header or footer you want.

What is it that you want to change? Derek explained how to eliminate the header on the first page. There are several functions you can insert into your header and footer, but, other than Page #, and possibly Part #, I don't know what you'd want to make different from page to page.

In which case, I'd select the "Different first page" option, and add the extra info to the first page manually (as you probably figured out).

-Derek

Sometimes it's easier to start with the second page header, get that right, then move to the first page and create the special header.

Instead of just doing a regular page break, insert a section break and change the header of the 2nd section to not the same as the previous section.