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LAST PAGE FOOTER
Cannot access footer on last page of document. Have tried inserting pages,
copying pages from other documents, etc. to no avail. Last page footer always remains blank. Header on last page, however, can be accessed and changed. |
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Word does not have a "last page" header or footer setting. Do you have
section breaks in place or something else that makes your last page different? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Cannot access footer on last page of document. Have tried inserting pages, copying pages from other documents, etc. to no avail. Last page footer always remains blank. Header on last page, however, can be accessed and changed. |
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Actually, each page has its own distinct header and footer, and each page is
its own "section". I can access all other headers and footers, except for the footer on the very last page of the document. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Word does not have a "last page" header or footer setting. Do you have section breaks in place or something else that makes your last page different? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Cannot access footer on last page of document. Have tried inserting pages, copying pages from other documents, etc. to no avail. Last page footer always remains blank. Header on last page, however, can be accessed and changed. |
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Thank you, Charles, for your assistance.
First, our reports are detailed enough, with both portrait and landscape pages being used throughout with unique header and footer data, that we found it easiest to set each page as its own section. Therefore, for our purposes one page = one section. Second, upon reviewing another response from this site, I found an article regarding sections that helped to address the problem(http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...onsContent.htm). Issue resolved as follows: 1. Inserted a new section ("new page") before last section break but after last of typed text in document. 2. Connected headers and footers on "funky" page and newly inserted page to the last typed page of document. 3. Selected the last three pages and made "continuous" section. 4. Deleted last two pages of document. 5. Changed new last page of document back to "new page" section. This removed the blank page at the end that previously would not allow a footer. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: It is _extremely_ rare for a document to need a section for every page. About the only time I can think of is when you have alternating portrait and landscape layouts. Chances are that you have more sections than you realize. If you have multiple sections on a page, it can be difficult if not impossible to reach the headers and footers in all sections. I can conceive of your last page having a continuous section break with no text following it. In that case, the header from the preceding section would be that page's header while there might not be a footer available. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/sections.htm is a reference on sections but I don't know that it addresses your problem. You can start your debugging by displaying the section marks in your document. What is it you are trying to accomplish with the proliferation of sections? If it is to have different headers/footers on different pages, that need is usually addressed well in Word with a combination of the StyleRef field and the different first-page and different odd and even settings. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Actually, each page has its own distinct header and footer, and each page is its own "section". I can access all other headers and footers, except for the footer on the very last page of the document. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Word does not have a "last page" header or footer setting. Do you have section breaks in place or something else that makes your last page different? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Cannot access footer on last page of document. Have tried inserting pages, copying pages from other documents, etc. to no avail. Last page footer always remains blank. Header on last page, however, can be accessed and changed. |
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Thanks for letting us know what worked for you. I would still urge you to
look into the StyleRef field and see if it can relieve you of some of your section breaks, at least. The more section breaks you add to a document, the more prone it is to confusion, if not corruption. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" wrote in message ... Thank you, Charles, for your assistance. First, our reports are detailed enough, with both portrait and landscape pages being used throughout with unique header and footer data, that we found it easiest to set each page as its own section. Therefore, for our purposes one page = one section. Second, upon reviewing another response from this site, I found an article regarding sections that helped to address the problem(http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/format...onsContent.htm). Issue resolved as follows: 1. Inserted a new section ("new page") before last section break but after last of typed text in document. 2. Connected headers and footers on "funky" page and newly inserted page to the last typed page of document. 3. Selected the last three pages and made "continuous" section. 4. Deleted last two pages of document. 5. Changed new last page of document back to "new page" section. This removed the blank page at the end that previously would not allow a footer. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: It is _extremely_ rare for a document to need a section for every page. About the only time I can think of is when you have alternating portrait and landscape layouts. Chances are that you have more sections than you realize. If you have multiple sections on a page, it can be difficult if not impossible to reach the headers and footers in all sections. I can conceive of your last page having a continuous section break with no text following it. In that case, the header from the preceding section would be that page's header while there might not be a footer available. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/sections.htm is a reference on sections but I don't know that it addresses your problem. You can start your debugging by displaying the section marks in your document. What is it you are trying to accomplish with the proliferation of sections? If it is to have different headers/footers on different pages, that need is usually addressed well in Word with a combination of the StyleRef field and the different first-page and different odd and even settings. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Actually, each page has its own distinct header and footer, and each page is its own "section". I can access all other headers and footers, except for the footer on the very last page of the document. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Word does not have a "last page" header or footer setting. Do you have section breaks in place or something else that makes your last page different? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Deb B" Deb wrote in message ... Cannot access footer on last page of document. Have tried inserting pages, copying pages from other documents, etc. to no avail. Last page footer always remains blank. Header on last page, however, can be accessed and changed. |
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