I've used your techniques with success except in one circumstance. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each section in your document.Any header or footer that was previously visible also disappears because Word assumes you want your first-page header to be blank, as a default. The "Header" wording at the left of the header area or the "Footer" wording at the left of the footer area changes to indicate the header or footer is for the first page. In the Options group, select the Different First Page check box.Word dims the main portion of the document, places the insertion point in the header or footer, and displays the Design tab of the ribbon. Double click on either the header or the footer, depending on which one you want to suppress.Press Ctrl+Home to move to the beginning of your document.
(For instance, if you are using a section for each chapter in your document, put a section break at the beginning of each chapter.) Put a section break at the beginning of each section of your document.(Remember-headers and footers are tied to sections and can vary for each section in a document.) If you want to only suppress headers or footers on the first page of each section in your document-perhaps you have one section for each chapter in a book-length document and you want to suppress the header or footer on the first page of each chapter-then follow these steps: The foregoing steps work fine if you want to suppress a header or footer on a page other than the first page of a section. Now, if you preview your document or print it out, you can see there are headers or footers in each section except the one where you deleted them. Click the Close Header and Footer tool at the right side of the ribbon.(A quick way I do this is to press the Home key to move the insertion point to the beginning of the header or footer, hold down the Shift key, and then press the End key to select everything in the header or footer. (The wording on the tool in Word 2007 is "Previous Section.") Click the Previous tool (also in the Navigation group) to again display the header or footer for the section for which you want headers or footers suppressed.Again, make sure the Link to Previous tool is not selected.(The wording on the tool in Word 2007 is "Next Section.") Click the Next tool in the Navigation group to display the next section's header or footer.