Adjust Margins

Step1. Open the document whose margins you want to set. If you want the margins to apply only to a selected part of a document, select that part now.

Step2. Click the Page Layout tab, and click Margins button in the Page Setup group. This will display a list of options to be selected but you have to click Custom Margins option available at the bottom.

Step3. You will have to display a Page Dialog Box as shown below where you can set top, left, right and bottom margins under the Margins tab. Select Apply to: option to apply the margin on selected text or complete document.

Step4. If you are going to bind the document and want to add an extra amount of space on one edge for the binding, enter that amount in the Gutter text box, and select the side the gutter is on with the Gutter Position drop-down list. After setting all the desired values for all the margins, click OK button to apply the margins.

Add Header and Footer

Step1. Click the Insert tab, and click either Header button or Footer button whatever you want to add first. Assume you are going to add Header, so when you click Header button it will display a list of built-in Headers from where you can choose any of the headers by simply clicking on it.

Step2. Once you select any of the headers, it will be applied to the document in editable mode and the text in your document will appear dimmed, Header and Footer buttons appear on the Ribbon and a Close Header and Footer button will also appear at the top-right corner.

Step3. Finally you can type your information whatever you want to have in your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of header insertion mode. You will see final result as follows.

Edit Header and Footer

Step1. Click the Insert tab, and click either Header button or Footer button whatever you want to edit. Assume you are going to edit Header, so when you click Header button it will display a list of options including Edit Header option.

Step2. Just click on it and word will display editable header for you as shown below.

Step3. Now you can edit your document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come out of header edit mode.

Add Page Numbers

Step1. Click the Insert tab, and click Page Number button available in header and footer section. This will display a list of options to display page number at the top, bottom, current position etc.

Step2. When you move your mouse pointer over the available options, it displays further styles of page numbers to be displayed. For example when I take mouse pointer at Bottom of Page option it displays following list of styles.

Step3. Finally select of the page number styles which you like most. I selected Accent Bar 1 style by clicking over it. After this step you will enter in Page Footer modification mode, so you would have to click Close Header and Footer button to come out of footer edit mode.

Remove Page Numbers

Step1. Click the Insert tab, and click Page Number button available in header and footer section. This will display a list of options to display page number at the top, bottom, current position etc and at the bottom you will have Remove Page Numbers option. Just click this option and it will delete your all the page numbers set in your document.

Insert Page Breaks

Step1. Bring your insertion point immediately before the text that you want to appear on a new page.

Step2. Click the Insert tab, and click Page Break button available in the Pages group.

Word inserts a page break and moves all text after the page break onto a new page. You can also use Ctrl + Enter keys to create a page break at the pointed location.

Delete a Page Break

Just put insertion point on previous page of the page break you want to delete. Press Delete key multiple times until both the pages get merged.