Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Header changes with text outside of header
Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason for
it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of the page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as well. What gives??? Connie Martin |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Guess I'll answer my own question. This was getting rather annoying because
even when I changed the body text to left aligned the header would left align. GRR-RR-RRR-RRRRRR! In Format/Style, I clicked on Header/Modify and removed the check mark from "Automatically update". Why that was checked, I don't know, but it seems to have done the trick. Connie Martin "Connie Martin" wrote: Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason for it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of the page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as well. What gives??? Connie Martin |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Here's a suggestion to try. Hope it helps.
Fonts or other formatting/attributes changing for no apparent reason to match another part of a document is often a Styles issue. Of course, every point in a Word document is subject to a style, even if it is a default style like "Normal" or "Header." If somehow you are using the same style in both places Word would assume you meant for the attributes like font size, justification etc. to be the same; change one and the other location is changed to match it. If the styles are not the same, check to see if they are Based On each other or on some other style they have in common. I usually leave the Automatically Update unchecked since I don't really know what it means (leaving it unchecked should update the various attributes wherever this style appears in your document anyway). Things get a bit weird if you add the same attributes along with a style, such as Format, Font or Format, Paragraph. Then you get these parts of Word to go to war with each other. "Connie Martin" wrote in message ... Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason for it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of the page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as well. What gives??? Connie Martin |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
The main problem was that *Normal* style was also set to update
automatically, and most other styles are based on Normal, so when you formatted a Normal paragraph, it was updated, and Header, which is based on it, was updated as well. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Connie Martin" wrote in message ... Guess I'll answer my own question. This was getting rather annoying because even when I changed the body text to left aligned the header would left align. GRR-RR-RRR-RRRRRR! In Format/Style, I clicked on Header/Modify and removed the check mark from "Automatically update". Why that was checked, I don't know, but it seems to have done the trick. Connie Martin "Connie Martin" wrote: Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason for it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of the page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as well. What gives??? Connie Martin |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
How to protect text in header without disabling following header? | Page Layout | |||
Outline | Page Layout | |||
Word 2000: need to expand the header to the left; left text margi. | Page Layout | |||
merge data in a header or text box does not save | Mailmerge | |||
Text Box instead of a Header | Microsoft Word Help |