Creating sections for a cover letter and resume
To keep your cover letter and your resume together, you can create them in the same document and use a separate section, with different information and formatting, for each.
Insert a section break
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Go to File > Options.
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Select Display.
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Under Always show these formatting marks on the screen, select Paragraph marks.
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Click or tap where you want to insert a section break for your cover letter.
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Go to Layout (or Page layout for 2013), and select the down arrow next to Breaks.
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Under Section Breaks, select Next Page.
Make the header and footer different from the previous section
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Select the first page of the resume (not cover letter).
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Go to Insert > Header.
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Select Edit Header.
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Click or tap anywhere in the header, and select Link to Previous to clear it.
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Select Close Header and Footer.
Start your resume headers and footers on the second page of your resume
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Select the second page of the resume .
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Go to Insert > Header.
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Select Edit Header.
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Click or tap anywhere in the header, and select Different First Page.
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Select Close Header and Footer.
Use different layouts for your cover letter and your resume
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Set the layout for your cover letter, and then select the first page of your resume.
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Go to Layout and select Page Setup dialog launcher
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Under Apply to, select This point forward.
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Make your layout changes and select OK.