If you constantly work writing or editing text documents in Microsoft Word, or in some of its alternatives , you will surely know the ‘Footer’ tool , which is used to place the same content on a series of pages within a document. You can even use this tool to number pages or place dates.
But it may be the case that what you want is to remove the footer and, depending on how the document is configured, this will take you a series of steps. Today we will show you the easiest way so that you can eliminate them without major problems.
How to remove the footer from a WORD page permanently
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- What is the way to edit the footer on a single sheet in Word?
- What options do I have in Windows to remove a footer?
- For recent versions of Windows
- If you have an old version of this system
- What can I do to remove the footer on macOS computers?
- If you have a current macOS system
- If you can’t update the MacOS system
What is the way to edit the footer on a single sheet in Word?
The first thing you must do is open the document you want to edit and click on the ‘Insert’ menu, there you must locate the option called ‘Footer’, click on it and a drop-down menu will appear where you must choose the option ‘ Edit footer’. If you want only the footer of the first page of the document to be different, you must check the box called ‘Different first page’.
Once you do all this procedure, you will be able to see how the cursor is automatically located in the footer section and you will be able to make all the changes you need to this section of the document. Once you’re done editing, don’t forget to press the ‘Save’ button so that the changes you’ve made are kept.
What options do I have in Windows to remove a footer?
Depending on the version of Windows and the package of our Office account that you have installed, it will be the procedure that you must follow to remove the footer.
For recent versions of Windows
- Open the document you want to edit.
- Click the ‘Insert’ button.
- Select the ‘Footer’ option.
- In the menu that appears below, select the ‘Remove Footer’ option.
By executing this procedure you will be removing the footer from each of the document sheets, so you will not have to repeat the steps on each sheet .
If you have an old version of this system
In the event that you have an older version of the Office suite , then you will need to follow the steps below to remove the footer content.
- Open the documentwhere the footer you want to remove is.
- Double-click the footer section (the bottom of the sheet)
- Select with the mouse all the content of the footer.
- Delete all content from the footerby pressing the delete key (Supr).
As in newer versions of Office, this action will have an effect on every page of the document , so you won’t see the footer on any sheet again.
What can I do to remove the footer on macOS computers?
If, on the other hand, you use a Mac computer, with its iOS operating system , and in the event that you use the native iOS text editor, Pages , do the following:
If you have a current macOS system
- Open the document you want to remove the footer from
- Double-click the footer section of the document.
- In the menu that you see at the top of Pages, select the option ‘Remove footer’.
- Press the ‘Escape’ key (Esc) to exit the menu.
When you have finished all the steps, then you can see that the footer will have been removed from each of the pages of the entire document that you are editing.
If you can’t update the MacOS system
In the event that you have a very old version of MacOS, you will have to check the version you have installed , the way in which you should remove the footer will be as follows :
- Open the document you want to remove the footer from.
- Double click directly on the footer you want to remove.
- Select all the content in the footer.
- Press the ‘Delete’ key (Supr), in this way you will be deleting all the content of the footer.
- Press the ‘Save’ button within the ‘File’ menu.
Once you finish this process you will have removed all the content of the footer that the document had. So you can add new content if that’s what you want to do.