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| | Open the View menu and choose Header and Footer . | -
| | Press Tab twice to move to the right edge of the header area, and click the Insert Date button. | -
| | Word inserts the current date. (To insert the current time, click the Insert Time button to the right of the Insert Date button.) | -
| | Click the Switch Between Header and Footer button to move to the footer area. | INTRODUCTION The Header and Footer toolbar makes it easy to insert commonly used blocks of text into a header or footer, as well as fields for the date, the page number, the time, and so on. Here, you take a quick tour of some of the options available on the toolbar. Feel free to experiment on your own. | -
| | Click the Insert AutoText button, and then choose one of the AutoText entries you'd like to see. | -
| | Word inserts the AutoText entry in the footer. Select and delete this entry. Try a few other AutoText entries, and delete the last one. | -
| | Press the Tab key, type Page , and then press the Spacebar . | -
| | Click the Insert Page Number button, and then click Close in the Header and Footer toolbar. | TIP Deleting Fields To delete a field, select it by double-clicking it or dragging over it with the mouse and then press the Delete key. | TIP Changing the Date Format To change the date format that Word uses when you click the Insert Date button, open the Insert menu and choose Date and Time . In the Date and Time dialog box, select the desired date format, click the Default button, click Yes in the message box that appears, and then click OK . | |