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.

While Word 2007 ships with a swag of handy Quick Parts for creating great-looking headers and footers in your documents, sometimes these don’t look exactly as you want them to look. With the new tools ...

You'd think the battle of Word vs. Google Docs would be over before it begins, because Word has more features. But more isn't always better. We tested both in a real-world use case to find out.

How to use Microsoft Word’s Styles to automate formatting of large blocks of text Headers, subheads, footnotes, and regular paragraphs all need their own look. Word's styles can make that all easy.

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.