You can create a brand new footer here that will be separate from the footer on page 1. But if you look at the footer for page 2 it will initially look like the one you had. This is because by default Link to Previous is selected on the Header/Footer tab. Just deselect that option and you can create your new footer. On page 2 if you look at the status bar you’ll see that you’re now in Section 2. From there select a Section Break for the Next Page. To do that, at the bottom of your text for page 1 go to the Page Layout tab and click on the Breaks drop-down arrow. Within one section you can have a different footer for the first page of that section and for the odd and even pages of that section. But you can create a new section directly after page 1 and place a completely different footer on page 2. The following illustration shows the footer of. Elements like headers and footers reside within sections, and from section to section they can be changed.