
Insert a Header or Footer into a Document The same text can appear at the top or bottom of every page. Both are useful to create consistency within a document. Footers appear at the bottom of the page. Headers are portions of the document that appear at the top of the page. While the steps involved are a bit different between Writer and Word, each application can produce documents with headers and footers.

Writer is the word processing application of OpenOffice and is comparable to Microsoft Word.īoth Writer and Word can insert headers and footers into documents.

is a free, open source productivity suite of applications that include a word processor, spreadsheet application and presentation application. OpenOffice Writer is the word processing component offered in 's productivity suite of applications.
