This is the most important part of the process. You need to insert a section break between each chapter of your document so that Word knows how your layout works. Word 2007/2010: Click the “Page Layout” ribbon tab then “Breaks”.Word 2003: Click the “Insert” menu then “Break…”.You can optionally make it a “continuous” break which means the chapters run directly together, or a “next page” break which means the new chapter starts on a new page. I recommend using the built-in “Heading 1” style for your chapter headings. You can modify it or use a different named style if you want. Either way, make sure you are consistent and that you don’t use the same style for anything else. For some information, see: Customize or create new styles Different first-page headers If you’re not familiar with styles in Word then I really recommend learning about them. Word 2007/2010: Click the “Page Layout” ribbon tab, then click the little arrow at the bottom-right of the “Page Setup” group.Word 2003: Click the “File” menu then “Page Setup”.There are a couple of ways to do this, but my preferred approach is to tell Word that the first page of each section will have a different header.Ĭlick on the first page of your first chapter, and then open the “Page Setup” dialog: You usually don’t want the running header to appear on the first page of a chapter as you already have the heading there anyway. When the “Page Setup” dialog is open, click on the “Layout” tab. Under the “Headers and footers” section, check the box labelled “Different first page”, then click OK. You will need to repeat this process for each chapter. Add the running headerįinally, we can add our running header. Open the header on the 2nd page or later of any chapter. Word 2007/2010: Click on the “Insert” ribbon tab, then “Quick Parts” (in the Text group), then “Fields”.Word 2003: Click the “Insert” menu and then “Field…”.Now you need to insert a field which will automatically display your chapter heading. The Field dialog should have a “Categories” drop-down box at the top-left. In the “Field names” box underneath it, scroll down and click on “StyleRef”. Over on the right, a box labelled “Style names” should appear. Tips and problems How do I include heading numbers? Click on the name of the style you used for chapter headings, such as “Heading 1”.Ĭlick on OK, and your running chapter heading should now appear throughout your document. If you are using automated heading numbering then the default StyleRef field probably won’t show it. Follow the same process to insert a second StyleRef field into your header. However, don’t click OK on the Field dialog just yet. First, check the box labelled “Insert paragraph number”, and then click OK. That should insert the number as a separate field. The running title is missing on some pages You can move or copy-paste it to wherever you want in the header. If you find that the running header stops at some point in your document then you may have broken the link between headers. Open up the first header which is causing a problem and try enabling “Link to previous”.