You don’t have to take up space in your document for details like title, author, or date. Here’s how to add and customize headers and footers in Word.

Unlock the secrets to customizing headers and footers in Microsoft Word. Follow our step-by-step guide to master document formatting.

You can add page numbers in Word to the header or footer sections of a document using the page numbers option in the Insert menu.

If you run into a conditional header or footer request that you can't handle, take a look at Word fields. They're not magic, but it kind of feels like magic when they do what you want.