As mentioned above, one of the advantages of splitting your document into sections is that it enables you to have different footers in each section. You will need to do this when:

• you want to remove a footer from a title page;
• you want a different footer in a table of contents;
• you want to restart page numbering in a section;
• you need to format a footer in a landscape section differently from the footer throughout the rest of a document; or
• you want different watermarks in different sections.

To do these things without affecting footers in other sections of your document, you need to unlink footers. We do this using the Same as Previous button on the Header and Footer toolbar.

Note: Section breaks split the main body of a document into sections, but do not unlink footers.

When the footers of sections are linked, the words Same as Previous will appear at the top right hand side of the footer when you open it. The Same as Previous button on the Header and Footer toolbar enables you to link and unlink footers across sections. To unlink a footer from the footer in the previous section:

1. Double click on a footer to open it. (The footer and the Header and Footer toolbar will open).
2. Click the Same as Previous button on the Header and Footer toolbar. (This will unlink the footer from the footer in the previous section and the words Same as Previous will disappear from the top right corner of the footer).
3. When you have finished making changes to the footer, click the Close button to close the Header and Footer toolbar.