How to delete them from the Writer program altogether?
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What do you mean? Donāt you want to see the area in the user interface where you can activate a header or footer and enter text there? If so, you canāt. And thatās not a problem, you donāt have headers or footers in your document if you donāt first enable them. Or do you have a document with headers and footers and do you want to get rid of them?
@Chestnut, Maybe menu View - Hide Whitespace while in Single-page view (menu View - Zoom - Zoomā¦, and uncheck Single page under View Layout).
More LibreOffice Help on Show Whitespace and Zoom & View Layout.
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Iād like to do this as well. Iām not fond of headers and footer I think theyāre annoying, asinine, to include on all pages by default and I canāt find a way to get rid of them. Theyāre annoying because I want to use the entire, borderless, no margins, full page from edge to edge. Iāll do my own formatting if I want it on a text document. Back to notepad++ for me for this. These writer and word programs are annoying and stupid we have no control over these things and it makes printers run a full page of nothing because it insists on having giant, blank, spaces of nothing everywhere.
@Bort then why do you use a document processor? You seem to describe a specification for a text editor. Which Writer feature do you use in the end?
@anon87010807 It is a moot point to mention the header and footer are not used if they still take the room on the page!? Fortunately, once removed, LibreOffice allows adjusting all the margins on the āpage styleā so the useful area of the page can be stretched to the limit of the printer max marginsā¦ and get maximum real-estate.
It is not, because when you donāt enable the header, it doesnāt take up space. You can test that easily: just start a new document, enable the header, and see the top of the text area go down.
If you want to use a larger part of the page, simply modify the page margins (yes, in the page style).
I believe that the āenable header optionā was added in LibreOffice as a result of requests from users who wanted to enable headers easier than by opening the page style dialog box. It was never implemented in Apache OpenOffice or earlier versions.
ā¦well I already did just that, when the header/footer are ON, I lose space on the page, even if I have margins that reach beyond the header/footer spaceā¦
Many of my documents started wrapping 1 or 2 lines to a 2nd pageā¦ print 2 pagesā¦
ā¦then all these separations show on the page, itās messy.
One point, although the header/footer are deleted, the remaining space still can be clicked to get the header/footer label/dropdownā¦ (ticker on end) quirky!
@ Bortā¦ you are so right, my friendā¦ I faced the same issueā¦ and have a decent solution. Read Zizi64 post and mine below, you can get pretty close to max printer margins.
@NIQ: one point to understand is that margins in Writer, contrary to M$ Word, are absolutely no-print areas (well almost in fact). When you enable header and footer, their estate is removed from the between-margins zone without modifying margins (this is the exact opposite in Word). Consequently, disabling header and footer is not sufficient to reclaim margin area: you just revert to the situation of maximum print zone.
To increase the print zone, you absolutely need to decrease the margins in the page style.
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@ ajlittoz ā¦ Thank you. as I played with it I noticed exactly what you confirm, and that is what I did to maximize my real estate. ā¦and I see that the hdr and ftr remain available always(the blue label always pops up on click of area, so a context click and can manipulate immediately. suwheeet!
Switch off them in the applied page Style. You must do it in all of your existing documents.
If you want to eliminate the Headers-Footers in all of the new documents in the future, then you must create a new template with adjusted Page Styles, and you must set the created template as Default Template.
Of course you will able to switch on the Header/Footer anytime in a specific document or in a template if you still want to use them again.
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ā¦why is not this perfect answer pinned at the top!?
I should add that once one sees the Page Style dialog the space can be adjusted to remove the wasted areas.
Thank you for being the only person in here who answers the question accurately, correctly, and thoroughly without trying to force any opinion(useless) no wasted time reading controlling non-senseā¦ why is not this perfect answer pinned at the top!?
Because @Chestnut who asked the question (and therefore āownsā it) has not (yet?) marked it as the solution to the issue.
ā¦appreciate your comment. I was a bit impetuous! lol
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So I did the work for him/her. 
If you actually need to remove page header/footer (*) @Zizi64 already gave a concise answer to that. Comment on his answer if you need detailed instructions.
If your requirement is to maximize usage of āscreen real estateā while editing (as per the comment from @Bort), there are a couple of settings on the View menu which may help you to remove āirrelevant objectsā:
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Web view will eliminate page related elements like margins and header/footer display, and lines wrap at window/screen edge.
- Select View - Normal to revert to default display.
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Full screen view will remove all tools and menus and maximize the window, creating the largest possible editing pane on your system.
Note that this step in itself will not eliminate actual headers/footers.- Click the āfloatingā fullscreen button to revert to previous view.
(*) Headers/footers are repeating content on every page, which usually shows where you are in the document ; Page #, chapter name etc., usually not appearing as open space