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 the header and footer from the first page in active document
• Remove all headers and footers in active document
• Remove all various headers and footers in active document with VBA code
• Remove all various headers, footers and watermarks in active document with Inspect Document feature
• Remove all header lines in active document with an amazing feature

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:

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.

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:

Sub RemoveHeadAndFoot()
'Update by Extendoffice
    Dim oSec As Section
    Dim oHead As HeaderFooter
    Dim oFoot As HeaderFooter
    For Each oSec In ActiveDocument.Sections
        For Each oHead In oSec.Headers
            If oHead.Exists Then oHead.Range.Delete
        Next oHead
        For Each oFoot In oSec.Footers
            If oFoot.Exists Then oFoot.Range.Delete
        Next oFoot
    Next oSec
     Selection.WholeStory
    ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
    Selection.ParagraphFormat.Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle = wdLineStyleNone
    ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekMainDocument
End Sub

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

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.

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.

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.

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