You mean that in the body of the document, you put text to be
referenced in the header, but format it with font color 'white' so it
is only seen in the header?
I only have Word XP here, and the character formatting doesn't carry
through to the header.
Even when I define a character style with font color = white, the
header styleref text is visible.
What versions of Wierd and Windoze do you have?
As Stefan wrote, make sure that you don't have any empty paragraphs
tagged with the referenced style.
Regards
Jay