Simply click on Remove All to delete all headers, footers and watermarks in your document. When the Document Inspector dialog box appears, uncheck all boxes except Headers, Footers, and Watermarks. That’s regrettable, considering the elegant way in which Word provides for easy and exact spacing of paragraphs. From the Info pane, click on Check for Issues and then select Inspect Document from the pop-up menu. Despite it being years since Microsoft launched Word for Windows, you’ll still come across many documents in which an empty paragraph is used to create space between paragraphs. Open your Word document and go to the File tab of the Ribbon. Method 2: Remove Header or Footer in Word Using Document Inspector You can use the similar methods to remove the headers from your Word document. Now, all text or other stuff in the footers section should disappear. Just click on Footer and then choose Remove Footer from the drop-down menu. There’s no text in the paragraph so the Navigation Pane line is blank. The picture under ‘Paris’ is in a paragraph with a Heading style. Remove the line or change to a non-heading style and the extra Navigation Pane line will go away.
Under the Header & Footer tab of the Ribbon, you will see the Header item and Footer item in the sub-item list. The blank line under ‘London’ (see above) is caused by another line using a Heading style. Next, click on the Edit Footer button that appeared. Method 1: Remove Header or Footer in Word via Right-clickĪfter opening your Word document, right-click on the footer at the bottom of any page. 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.