If the text in your header or footer is too long to fit in a field, the field adjusts to allow for the longer text. If a button is dimmed, that format can’t be applied to the selected text. To change the font, font size, colour and alignment of header and footer text, select the text, then use the controls in the Format sidebar.
Left and right pages are different: When this tick box is selected in a document using facing pages, the headers and footers on left and right pages can be different. Deselect this tick box if you want to use different headers and footers for this section. Match previous section: Use the same headers and footers from one section to the next. If the document has more than one section, the setting applies only to the first page of this section. Hide on first page of section: Hide the header or footer on the first page. To set header or footer behavior for each section, click the Section tab at the top of the Document sidebar, then choose any of the following:
To set the distance from the top and bottom page margins, click in the toolbar, click the Document tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the arrows or enter values in the Top and Bottom fields (below the Header and Footer tick boxes). Instead, click in the toolbar and choose Page Number.
Note: If you already added page numbers in another section, you don’t see the Insert Page Number pop-up menu.
