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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
Header takes up too much room at top of page.
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
File | Page Setup | Layout | Headers and Footers - then make your changes.
-- Carol A. Bratt, MCP "TW Lawrence" wrote: Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin
(File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
What would cause you to be unable to delete the extra paragraphs? I also
seem to have 2 boxes. One is a dotted line that is labelled "Footer - section 1" and the other appears to be a table with the little "sun" symbols you find in tables. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
To delete the table you'll need to use Cut or Table | Delete | Table.
-- 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. "fishcad" wrote in message ... What would cause you to be unable to delete the extra paragraphs? I also seem to have 2 boxes. One is a dotted line that is labelled "Footer - section 1" and the other appears to be a table with the little "sun" symbols you find in tables. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden
characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there
is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
How do I examine the formatting? Does this apply in Word 2003?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
SHIFT+F1 or format style with the cursor in the relevant paragraph.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jaxon Ames wrote: How do I examine the formatting? Does this apply in Word 2003? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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How do I reduce header to 2 lines from 6 in Word?
Graham,
I checked the formatting and the spacing after paragraphs was set to "0", so I really don't know what is going on. Also, I have checked for invisible paragraph markers and there are none. Every time I open up word there is a 6" header, and Word didn't do that until I opened up a document that had those settings... now it does it every time. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do... I have done everything that Office Online has suggested with tutorials and such. "Graham Mayor" wrote: SHIFT+F1 or format style with the cursor in the relevant paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jaxon Ames wrote: How do I examine the formatting? Does this apply in Word 2003? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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Have you checked to make sure that "Vertical alignment" (Layout tab of Page
Setup) is set to Top and not Center? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jaxon Ames" wrote in message ... Graham, I checked the formatting and the spacing after paragraphs was set to "0", so I really don't know what is going on. Also, I have checked for invisible paragraph markers and there are none. Every time I open up word there is a 6" header, and Word didn't do that until I opened up a document that had those settings... now it does it every time. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do... I have done everything that Office Online has suggested with tutorials and such. "Graham Mayor" wrote: SHIFT+F1 or format style with the cursor in the relevant paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jaxon Ames wrote: How do I examine the formatting? Does this apply in Word 2003? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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And if all else fails - rename normal.dot to normal.old
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Have you checked to make sure that "Vertical alignment" (Layout tab of Page Setup) is set to Top and not Center? "Jaxon Ames" wrote in message ... Graham, I checked the formatting and the spacing after paragraphs was set to "0", so I really don't know what is going on. Also, I have checked for invisible paragraph markers and there are none. Every time I open up word there is a 6" header, and Word didn't do that until I opened up a document that had those settings... now it does it every time. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do... I have done everything that Office Online has suggested with tutorials and such. "Graham Mayor" wrote: SHIFT+F1 or format style with the cursor in the relevant paragraph. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jaxon Ames wrote: How do I examine the formatting? Does this apply in Word 2003? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you examined the formatting of the header paragraph(s) to see if there is any Spacing After? -- 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. "ahimsa" wrote in message ... I have 1.2" of extra (blank) space in my header; there are no hidden characters to account for the blank space. How can I change the dimensions of the header 'box'? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The size of the header is determined by two settings. The Header margin (File | Page Setup | Layout) determines where the top of the header is. The Top margin (File | Page Setup | Margins) determines where the document body ordinarily begins. The space between the header margin and the top margin is the space usually allocated for a header. But a header can grow to be as deep as is needed (in the case of a letterhead in a First Page Header, for example) and will push the document body down. If you want to allow more space on the page, you can reduce the top and bottom margins; when you do that, you may also want to reduce the header and footer margins if your header and footer contain text, to ensure that there will be some space between the header/footer and the top/bottom of the document. If you will not have any text in the header or footer, you can reduce the header and footer margins to 0" and make your top and bottom margins as small as your printer's printable area will permit. If your header is taking up more space than its content seems to warrant (based on the Header and Top margin settings), it may well be that it contains empty paragraphs or Space Before/After formatting. It is easier to troubleshoot this if you display nonprinting characters (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You will see each paragraph represented by a paragraph mark (¶). Delete any extra ones. -- 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. "TW Lawrence" TW wrote in message ... Header takes up too much room at top of page. How do I reduce size of "Header box" so I can fir more onto a single page document? |
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