This behavior of the header is described at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm. To summarize, the
header margin determines how far from the edge of the page the header
starts; the same for the footer margin, though it is less obvious from the
way the footer pane is displayed. As the header/footer increases in depth,
the header pushes down and the footer pushes up. It does not stop when it
reaches the top/bottom margin but instead pushes the document content down
or up (unless you have set an absolute top/bottom margin by--extremely
unintuitively--using a negative number). This is what allows you to have a
different effective margin on some pages than others (see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm). If you have a
header/footer whose depth will exceed the space allowed for it (distance
between header/footer and top/bottom margin), you will need to add Space
After to the header or Space Before to the footer to create "breathing
room."
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"SV" wrote in message
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Sue,
Yeah, that does make some sense. Fortunately I'm generally able to see
the
logic behind a huge chunk of Bill's rationale, and so this is just a
'takes
some getting used to' thing. Right now I'm playing around to find out if
the header-size is created by the program comparing the "Where the header
starts" and "Upper Margin" values and figuring everything in between MUST
be
header. :-)
Shane
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
As Bob says, those settings are now on the Layout tab. At first glance,
it
might be hard to imagine why MS would have moved a margin setting away
from
the Margins tab, but perhaps it seemed reasonable in that the "Different
first page" and "Different odd and even" settings are on that tab as
well.
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Words into Type
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