The header is situated in the upper left hand corner of each page, to remind the reader of the paper's topic. The header is flush left, whereas the page numbers are flush right. To correctly format the unique first-page header, let's start with the basics. First, let's create our unique running header for the title page. I cannot see any facility for doing this in the User Interface, but you can do it in code. As usual, there are a lot more steps than I'd want. At the bottom I have now added some VBA for insertion in your Normal template for those who are familiar with that. For VBA, not quite sure that you do not need to enable the Developer tab, but. Open your document and enable the View that you want to change (the width can be different for different views). Click Word->Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor. Ideally, try to organise the Word and VBE windows so you can click in both without hiding one or the other. If you cannot see a window titled 'Immediate Window' in the VBE, use VBE's View->Immediate Window to display it Type the following into the immediate Window, or copy/paste it from here, and press return/enter at the end?activewindow.view.revisionsballoonwidthtype I think you will see the value '1' displayed in the Immediate Window. If so, change the command to the following (delete the '?' And append '=0') activewindow.view.revisionsballoonwidthtype=0 and execute it Then change the command to activewindow.view.revisionsballoonwidth=10 (put the percentage you want where I have put '10') and execute that. If you actually want a width in points, execute activewindow.view.revisionsballoonwidthtype=1 then execute activewindow.view.revisionsballoonwidth=200 where you put the width in points instead of '200' Notes: • when I first tried changing the width value, it didn't work. I seemed to have to modify the revisionsballoonwidthtype first, then my change would 'take' But perhaps I did something wrong along the way. ![]() • you may need to prefix 'ActiveWindow' by 'ActiveDocument.' (without the quotation marks) to get this to work. FWIW I would give you the equivalent applescript, but I can't see the equivalent property names in the Dictionary for Word 2011. Alternatively, you can put the following code in a new Module in your Normal template (you can do that in the VB Editor). Change the width values att he top to the ones you want to use. Then, with a blank document (i.e. 'based on' Normal.dotm', run the @@@ routine. This should fix normal.dotm itself and change the default behaviour in future (I think!). However, there is also an AutoOpen routine in there which you may need to change the settings for existing documents. I am not sure you need this. If not, delete or rename the AutoOpen sub. If you do need it, and you already have an AutoOpen in your Normal.dotm, you will need to modify your existing routine, then remove/rename mine. Along the way, I realised that there is a minimum width, which is what folled me into thinking that the values were not 'taking'. But for example, setting a width of 5%, 10%, 15% here has exactly the same effect, and I need to go to 21% or some such to increase it. Word does not report the width it has set when you inspect the values - it reports the widths you tried to set. ![]() If you want 'the minimum', I suppose using the value '1' may be enough for either points or percent. ' set your preferred measurement type and width here. ' NB, there seems to be a minimum anyway, but that may depend on things I have ' not looked at such as screen size and so on. ' The numbers Word reports are the numbers you have set, not the values ' it has actually set the width to. It took me quite a while to find the corresponding options in Word 2011 to make the first page header/footer behave differently than the others. But I found it at the end by sheer luck after having it circumvented through another option. And no, there’s no ribbon bar option like in Word 2010 😉 In the Menubar go to: Format -> Document There select the Layout tab. Select Different first page. That’s all folks! П˜‰ Update It’s even easier: When you double-click to edit the header, the header/footer ribbon appears. And there you can make the same choice as above by selecting Different first page. I had the same problem described by Sarah above to add to your comment, I found that I couldn’t insert page numbers on the first page footer, otherwise it would blow out the suppressed first page header. Instead, I went to the edit first page footer (I used the “edit footer” button that I dragged to my toolbar) and simply put in the number 1 on the first page, which allowed me to suppress the first page header but still have a page 1 on the document as well, with the header and footer for the following pages remaining intact. Some people have been successful in having the header show up on the first page only after experimenting.
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