Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 23, 2020)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016
If you have developed two documents that are closely related (perhaps they are even different versions of the same information), you may want to copy headers or footers from one document to the other. This is easy to do using standard editing techniques:
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2019-10-29 14:13:46
allen why
Page numbers made this really difficult, Allen you weren't very helpful
2018-05-25 09:17:52
Andrew
I usually do this in a converse way: I put the main text in a copy of the original document with the headers and footers already in place.
Deborah: try making the page formatting of the new document (especially the margins) the same as the old document before pasting, and using the settings to keep the original text formatting when pasting.
Andy
2018-05-24 12:40:33
Deborah
Tried this, everything shifts around when I paste.
2018-01-05 10:19:15
Mark Meyer
Worked exactly as described. Thanks for posting this tip site. I almost bought a $20.00 book just for this information.
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