Aug 13, 2016  In this way, you will be able to remove only the horizontal line in the header, while you can retain other formatting in your header. Double click at the header again to stop editing. Word can Sometimes Corrupt Unexpectedly. Anyway, we can finally get rid of the unwanted horizontal lines in the header of our Word.

How can I remove footers from a Word document prior to printing? This header takes up too much space and you need to delete it? In this tutorial we’ll show you easy ways to remove header and footer in Microsoft Office Word 2019 / 2016.

Method 1: Remove Header or Footer in Word via Right-click

After opening your Word document, right-click on the footer at the bottom of any page. Next, click on the Edit Footer button that appeared.

Under the Header & Footer tab of the Ribbon, you will see the Header item and Footer item in the sub-item list. Just click on Footer and then choose Remove Footer from the drop-down menu.

Now, all text or other stuff in the footers section should disappear. You can use the similar methods to remove the headers from your Word document.

Method 2: Remove Header or Footer in Word Using Document Inspector

Open your Word document and go to the File tab of the Ribbon. From the Info pane, click on Check for Issues and then select Inspect Document from the pop-up menu.

Microsoft Word Remove Header Space

When the Document Inspector dialog box appears, uncheck all boxes except Headers, Footers, and Watermarks. Click on Inspect.

Simply click on Remove All to delete all headers, footers and watermarks in your document. When you’re finished, close the Document Inspector dialog and save your changes.

That’s it!

How To Remove All Headers And Footers In Word?

Normally, you can quickly remove all the headers and footers from a Word document just by double-clicking the header or footer field, and then remove them at once. But, if there are multiple various headers and footers in one document, how to remove all of them at once?

Remove all horizontal header lines but keep header contents from a whole Word document

Kutools for Word: More than 100 handy Word add-ins, improve your work efficiency, free to try with no limitation in 30 days. Click to free trial Now!

Remove the header and footer from the first page in active document

If you just want to remove the header and footer from the first page of current document and keep others, please do as this:

1. Open the Word file and go to the first page that you want to remove the header and footer, and then double-click the header area into editing mode.

2. Then, check Different First Page under the Header & Footer tab, see screenshot:

3. And then, click Close Header and Footer to exit the editing mode, and the header content in page one has been removed at once. See screenshot:

Tips: To remove the footer from the first page, please repeat the above steps.

Remove all headers and footers in active document

If the whole document contains only one type header and footer, to remove all of them, the below steps can help you to solve it quickly and easily.

1. Double-click the header in any one page to go to the editing mode, and then, select the content of the header, see screenshot:

2. Then, press Delete key on keyboard, and then click Close Header and Footer to exit the editing mode, all headers in this current document have been deleted immediately.

Tips: To remove all footers from this document, please repeat the above steps.

Remove all various headers and footers in active document with VBA code

Supposing, your document has been divided into multiple sections, and every section has each header or footer. So, there are multiple various headers or footers in active document, to remove all these various headers or footers, you need to apply the above method for deleting the headers or footers over and over again. Here, I will introduce a VBA code for dealing with this task.

1. Open the Word file that you want to remove all the headers and footers, and then hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

VBA code: Remove all various headers and footers in current document:

3. Then press F5 key to run this code, all various headers and footers are deleted at once.

Office Tab - Brings Tabbed Interface To Office, Make Your Work Much Easier!

Office Tab: Increases your productivity by 50% when viewing and editing multiple documents, helps to reduce thousands of tedious mouse clicks, free trial in 30-day! Click to free trial Now!

Remove Header Microsoft Word Mac Free

Remove all various headers, footers and watermarks in active document with Inspect Document feature

If you are not familiar with the VBA code, you can also use the Inspect Document feature of Word to remove all headers and footers with ease. Please do with the following steps:

1. Click File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document, see screenshot:

2. In the popped-out Document Inspector dialog box, only check the Header, Footers, and Watermarks option in the dialog box, make sure other options unchecked. See screenshot:

3. Then, click Inspect button, after inspecting the document, click Remove All button in the dialog box, see screenshot:

4. And then, click the Close button, all headers, footers as well as the watermarks have been removed from the whole document.

Note: If there are watermarks in the document, they will be removed as well.

Remove all header lines in active document with an amazing feature

Sometimes, you just want to remove the horizontal line under the header content, in this case, I will introduce a use tool-Kutools for Word, with its Clear Header Lines feature, you can remove all horizontal header lines from the header with only one click.

Microsoft Word Remove Header Section

For using this feature, please download and install Kutools for Word firstly!

Download Headers For Microsoft Word

After downloading and installing Kutools for Word, please do as this:

1. Click Kutools > Remove > Clear header Lines, see screenshot:

2. And then, a prompt box is popped out, please click Yes button, see screenshot:

3. And all the horizontal header lines under the header have been removed at once.

More relative headers and footers articles:

• Normally, you can insert the header or footer with document path, name quickly and easily in a Word file. But, have you ever tried to insert the chapter title to header or footer, so that, the content of the header or footer is depended on what chapter the page is in. This article, I will talk about how to solve this job in Word document.

• If there are header and footer in your Word document, when printing this document, the header and footer will be printed as well by default. But, sometimes, you needn’t the header and footer to be printed. In this case, the method in this article may help you.

• By default, an inserted header or footer will be applied to all pages in a Word document. If you want to create different headers or footers in a Word document, the method in this article can help you.

• Normally, when you insert page number for a Word document, the existing header or footer will be removed automatically. How could you insert both the header or footer and page numbers into a Word file?

• In general, you can copy a page from one Word document to another easily. However, the page header and footer won’t be copied with page content simultaneously. Comparing to copying the page header and footer manually, this article will introduce a tricky way to copy page with header and footer in Word.

Recommended Word Productivity Tools

Kutools For Word - More Than 100 Advanced Features For Word, Save Your 50% Time

• Complicated and repeated operations can be done one-time processing in seconds.
• Insert multiple images across folders into Word document at once.
• Merge and combine multiple Word files across folders into one with your desired order.
• Split the current document into separate documents according to heading, section break or other criteria.
• Convert files between Doc and Docx, Docx and PDF, collection of tools for common conversions and selection, and so on...

Remove Header Microsoft Word Mac 2016

• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  Thanks a lot, headers and footers has been a headache for me.
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  not worked
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  Method 3 Solved my problem!! Thank you so much! : )
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  Method 3 was the only one that worked
  Thank you!
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  Excellent - used method 3 and was able to remove 400 different headers from a 400 page document in under 2 minutes!!!
  MANY THANKS!
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  Method 3 was awesome!
  Thanks!
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  I have tried all of your methods and nothing works. I just can't get rid of them. The last method stated it didn't find any headers or footers but they are still there. This is so frustrating!

  • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
    He gives methods to delete the contents of the headers.
    The headers live in the margins. Try changing your margin sizes.

    • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
      Here's a simple solution I just found. Take your file to a second page and then double click on the gap between the two pages.
      That's it. It automatically removes the header and footer space (Word 2013)