Use headers, footers, page numbers, & footnotes

In documents that are in pages format, you lot tin can add dates, titles, or names to every page in a document using headers and footers in Google Docs. You can besides use page numbers and footnotes to organize your document.

Add together headers & footers

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. In the tiptop left, click Insert and thenHeader & folio number.
  3. Cull Header or Footer.
  4. Enter text for the header or footer.

Important: This feature isn't available in documents that are in pageless format. If your document already includes headers or footers and you switch it to pageless format, y'all won't see the headers and footers in your document anymore. To utilize and see headers and footers, make certain your document is in pages format.


Use different headers or footers per folio or section

  1. Click a header or footer.
  2. To cull your header and footer layout, check the box:
    • Different showtime page: Use different headers and footers on the first folio of the document or section. Learn how to add a department intermission.
    • Link to previous: Uncheck if you want to employ a different header or footer for that section. If yous don't find this option, add a department break. Learn how to add a section pause.

Employ different headers or footers on odd or even pages

  1. Click a header or footer.
  2. At the correct, click Options.
  3. Under "Use to," click Whole certificate.
  4. Click Different odd and fifty-fifty and thenApply.

Remove a header or footer

  1. On your computer, open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Double-click the header or footer yous desire to remove.
  3. On the right, click Optionsand thenRemove header or Remove footer.

Alter or remove header & footer margins

You lot tin set unlike header or footer margins for each section of your document or the entire document.

Tip: To remove header or footer space, change your margin size to 0.

Add page numbers & total page count

You lot can add page numbers to the whole document, to specific sections of your document, or starting from a specific page.

Of import: This feature isn't bachelor in documents that are in pageless format. To use this feature, brand sure your document is in pages format.

  1. Open a Google Doc.
  2. In the top left, click Insert and thenFolio number.
  3. So, click either:
    • Folio number: Choose where you lot desire the folio numbers to become.
    • Folio count: The page count is added wherever your cursor is placed in the document.
    • More options: You tin can apply folio numbers to specific pages or sections, or alter their alignment.

The page numbers or page count will be added automatically.

Add a footnote

  1. Open a document in Google Docs.
  2. Click where yous want to insert a footnote.
  3. In the top left, click Insert and thenFootnote.
  4. Type your footnote.

Important: This feature isn't available in documents that are in pageless format. If your document already includes footnotes and you lot switch it to pageless format, you will nonetheless run across the commendation number in the torso of your document, just the footnote will be hidden. If you delete the citation number, you will also delete the footnote. To utilize and see footnotes, make certain your certificate is in pages format.

Related links

  • Add together numbers to a slide in Google Slides
  • Change your margin size in Google Docs
  • Add citations in Google Docs
  • Freeze a row or cavalcade to make a header in Google Sheets

Was this helpful?

How can nosotros better it?