I’ve been working on a Word document where I wanted the footer to output different text on the first and last pages.  It’s pretty easy to have the first page content be different.  “File” – “Page Setup” – “Layout” tab – check “Different first page”.  Now your header or footer can be changed on the first page and the remainder of the document will be consistent.  The trick was finding a way to make the last page’s values different.

 The magic is achieved by using Field Codes.  In the area you want the different last page contents (e.g. the footer), hit Ctrl+F9 to enter the Field Codes delimiter.  This should pop in a pair of curly braces {}.  Inside them, enter { IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } “This content will only show up on the last page” }, where you either use Ctrl+F9 for entering { PAGE } and { NUMPAGES }, or you use the “Insert Page Number” and “Insert Number of Pages” buttons on the header and footer toolbar.  If you only want items to show up on all but the last page, you can also do something like this: { IF { PAGE } < { NUMPAGES } “This content will show up on all but the last page” } .

 I don’t want to support Microsoft’s annual commodity business model as they push the lastest version of Office, so I don’t have it and can’t vouch for this technique in the latest offering.