How to Combine Word Documents & Maintain Different Headers. When you work on a collaborative document in which different team members contribute separate sections or chapters to be combined later ...

Q. I’ve created a Word document with multiple chapters, and I want to insert different headers and footers for each chapter. However, each time I create a new header, it changes my previous headers.

Figure 2: To create page tabs, add a shape to the header and then rotate the text. To add tabs for each section of the document, return to the document and go to the beginning of the next section. If ...

If you are only trying to create a different header for the first page, Word make things a lot easier. Just check the "Different First Page" option on the toolbar while editing any header.

Step 2: Unlink the Sections At the moment, even though you've added Section Breaks between each part of your work, their headers and footers are still linked. This means that if you insert page ...