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Different headers for different pages

I'm having a big problem with headers.

I am writing a book in Microsoft Word 2010, and the book is divided into different months. (To use an example, the book starts in November, from chapters 1 - 8. I would like in the header for each page in those chapters for there to be the word "November" in the header. For chapters 9 onward, I need the header to say "December").

So when I type November into ONE header, it sets the header for every single page in the document to saying "November".  What I WANT to do is make sure that the header I'm typing in does NOT link to previous headers. I know that this is how I make sure certain pages have different headers! But my problem is, Word 2010 will not allow me to click or unclick the "link to previous" button, so I have no choice but to let all the headers to be the same.

This is a screenshot of when I open "Header & Footer Tools". See the "Link to Previous" button?

 

How can I have three or four different headers throughout the document?

Please, help me Microsoft!

Thank you,

Scout Collins

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If the cursor is in a header/footer of Section 1, the Link to Previous button is grayed out because there is no previous section. You have to start in Section 2's header (which requires that you've already inserted at least one section break; in your example, that would be at the end of chapter 8). Then, each time you want to change the header wording, you have to start a new section by inserting another section break, and then turn off Link to Previous in the new section.
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