The steps already described mention putting your liability warning in one footer paragraph and your continuation text in a different footer paragraph. How you do this has been covered in other WordTips. Instead, you'll need to resort to the use of fields in your footer to indicate what you want on the last page vs. The reason is because Word doesn't include a "last-page footer" like it does a first-page footer. If you want to switch the scenario so that all the pages contain the continuation text but only the last page contains the liability warning, then things get a bit trickier. That's it your liability warning will appear on the first page and all subsequent pages will contain just the continuation text.
Click the Close Header and Footer tool at the right side of the Header & Footer tab of the ribbon. Enter your continuation text, without the liability warning, in the footer area. (You can do this, if you desire, by clicking the Next tool in the Navigation group on the Header & Footer tab of the ribbon.) Jump to the footer area of a different page in the document, one that isn't the first page. Now you can enter your "continuation text," as discussed in other WordTips. After entering the liability warning, with your insertion at the end of that warning, press Enter so you can start a new paragraph. This will appear only on the first page of your document. Enter the text for your liability warning in the footer area designated as First Page Footer. Word indicates where a footer will appear. Word changes the footer indicator at the bottom of each page to indicate whether it is a First Page Footer or a regular Footer.
Click the Different First Page option. Controlling different footers for a document. Click the Options tool in the Options group to display available footer options. Word displays the footer area of the page, places in the insertion point within it, and displays the Header & Footer tab of the ribbon (Design tab in earlier versions of Word). Click Edit Footer, near the bottom of the drop-down gallery. It is a good idea to do this so you can start with a "blank slate," so to speak. If you already had a footer defined in your document, remove it by clicking on the Remove Footer option, near the bottom of the drop-down gallery. Word displays a gallery of pre-defined footers you could insert. Click the Footer tool in the Header & Footer group. Press Ctrl+Home to move to the beginning of your document. That is easy, too-just configure Word for a different footer on the first page of the document. If the document is multiple pages, however, then you might want the liability warning to appear only one time, such as on the first page of the document and not on subsequent pages. That is easy just stuff the warning into the footer and you are good to go. Those needs are defined, in this case, by the number of pages in a document.įirst, if the document is a single page, then you only need the liability warning to appear at the bottom of the page. While Word doesn't technically allow the definition of multiple footers for any given page, there are actually several different ways that Lu's scenario can be approached, depending on his exact needs. The headers and footers you can include in Word are quite flexible, although that flexibility may not be apparent to someone just starting out with the program as Lu is. He wonders how he can have a second footer to include this indicator. However, in multipage documents Lu would like a note to also appear at the bottom of each page indicating that a further page is following such as "./2" at the bottom of page 1 to indicate that there is a page 2 to follow. He is required by law to have a "liability warning" appear on all correspondence, so he has placed that warning in a footer. He would like to be able to put two footers on each page of his document. Lu is a lawyer in Australia who has now had to change to Word for work purposes.