Issues with removing header/footer from single pages

1) I need to remove the header&footer from certain pages, but the only way I found to do this is Microsoft's workaround of inserting a page break, which ruins the layout of my document. Is there any other way?

2) Since my footers consist of page numbering, removing some pages' footers messes up the page numbering. I tried right-clicking on the footer field of the page that I wanted to be "page 1", however setting the numbering to start here in fact puts a "2" in there, such that I need to set the number to 0 if I want the page to start at 1 from there.

3) Also, I notice that for some pages whose headers/footers get removed, the horizontal border line still remains, whereas for other pages, the border disappears together with the footer!

Any help with these 3 problems would be much appreciated!

Answer
Answer
Hi Stefan, the reason would be that it's easier to just insert an "IF i=1:16" condition somewhere in the markup of the document than to manually insert 16 section breaks and link headers/footers 16 times. It's really surprising Word 2013 doesn't offer an easy option to exclude custom pages, as most users wil not be interested in knowing the inner workings of how headers/footers are defined (e.g. whether they are section-specific, page-specific etc)

If you want to exclude pages 1-16, you would only need one section break, not 16.

Numbering Front Matter (Ribbon)

Otherwise, you could have 16 IF Fields where the "truetext" was "" and the "falsetext" was the header you want in the rest of your document.

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Charles Kenyon
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 1,414 Applies to: