Double‐click inside the top 1” margin of your Word document’s first page where the header.

Here’s how you add the header to the first page. The first page (title page) of a document written according to APA format ( Pocket Guide to APA Style, Third Edition) is different from the pages that come after it. Here is one that is simple and straightforward. However, there are various ways to properly add headers to your document. But creating a faux header by that method is very problematic, especially later on when you need to rewrite or edit. Often this enlarges the top margin of the document, making it look as though there is a header on the document when, in fact, there is not one. Instead, they manually enter body text where the running head should go. Many students are unfamiliar with how to use the Header feature. APA ( Pocket Guide to APA Style, Third Edition) prescribes a specific format for documents, and one of the features of this format is the running head. Part of APA style is formatting a running head, which can be tricky in Microsoft Word 2007. To describe how the subsequent pages’ header should be formatted in APA style. Learning Objectives: To describe how the title page’s header should be formatted in APA style.

Summary: Describes how to format the running head in the header position in APA style using Author/Creation: James Kirkpatrick, March 2011.

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