

Click the table move handleagain to select the table. Look at how close the line is to the logo? Let’s adjust the spacing!ġ5. The bottom border line is now visible.īut wait! We’re not quite done with the header. Note: The green arrows as shown above indicate the specific lines that you should click on to make it disappear.ġ4. Click on the lines that you want to get rid of in the Preview area so that only the bottom border line is visible. Note how the border line of the colour changes in the Borders tab.ġ3. In this example, I chose a custom red colour. Pick a colour from the Color Palettebased on the company or project theme, or you can leave it as black by default.ġ2. The Borders and Shadingdialog box appears. When the Table Toolsappear on the ribbon, click the Design tab and select Borders and Shadingin the Borders group.ġ1. Click the table move handleto select the table.ġ0. The company logo is now aligned to the right.ĩ. To align the image to the right, click Align Rightin the Paragraph group on the Hometab.Ĩ. Depending on the size of the original image, you may need to resize it to an acceptable dimension.ħ. The company logo is inserted into the header. On the Insert tab, click Pictures and look for the company logo.Ħ. Format the text to appear smaller than the body text, such as an 8pt.ĥ. The text is aligned to the left by default. Enter the document name in the first column of the table. A table of two columns and a row is inserted into the header.Ĥ. Move your cursor over the grid until you highlight two columns and one row.ģ. Double-click in the header area so that it becomes editable.Ģ.

In Part I of this tutorial, let’s focus on the header:ġ. Both header and footer have a border line. The footer section has the filename aligned to the left, copyright notice aligned to the centre, and page numbering aligned to the right. A project document has a header that contains the company logo aligned to the right, and document name aligned to the left. Let’s work on this common scenario that I’ve encountered. While there are many ways to solve problematic header and footer, I prefer to use table to control them, especially if it involves a combination of text and image. I have seen many occurrences of header and footer going out of places in Word documents for various reasons (some are even unexplainable!).
