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Stubborn Header
Win XP Pro / Office 2002 SP3
I have a set of documents (±160) that require a different first page (different margins and no header and footer). For this purpose I have inserted a section break at the bottom of page 1, and then inserted the header and footer on page 2 with "Same as previous" deselected. Under File|Page Setup, "Different first page" is also deselected. The Style for the header has a double line below, and the footer has a double line above. On some documents€”only on some€”despite all my efforts (selecting the whole header and deleting), an empty header and footer still appear on the first page, i.e. just the lines. What else do I need to do to get rid of this header and footer? |
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You don't need a section break to set a separate header (footer) for the
first page. Just use the "Different first page" option in File | Page Setup. You can even change the margins on the first page using the header. For example, anchor a text box to a header paragraph and move it into the left margin, pushing the text further to the center of the page. For more on this see the "More complex letterhead" section of the article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Johann Swart" wrote in message ... Win XP Pro / Office 2002 SP3 I have a set of documents (±160) that require a different first page (different margins and no header and footer). For this purpose I have inserted a section break at the bottom of page 1, and then inserted the header and footer on page 2 with "Same as previous" deselected. Under File|Page Setup, "Different first page" is also deselected. The Style for the header has a double line below, and the footer has a double line above. On some documents-only on some-despite all my efforts (selecting the whole header and deleting), an empty header and footer still appear on the first page, i.e. just the lines. What else do I need to do to get rid of this header and footer? |
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If you have made the border part of the Header style, then it will appear on
every page; once you've created a header anywhere, you will have an empty paragraph in the header even when you have no header content, and that empty paragraph will have the border. As Stefan notes, however, you don't need a section break to get a different header/footer/margins on the first page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Johann Swart" wrote in message ... Win XP Pro / Office 2002 SP3 I have a set of documents (±160) that require a different first page (different margins and no header and footer). For this purpose I have inserted a section break at the bottom of page 1, and then inserted the header and footer on page 2 with "Same as previous" deselected. Under File|Page Setup, "Different first page" is also deselected. The Style for the header has a double line below, and the footer has a double line above. On some documents€”only on some€”despite all my efforts (selecting the whole header and deleting), an empty header and footer still appear on the first page, i.e. just the lines. What else do I need to do to get rid of this header and footer? |
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In addition to Susanne's excellent assessment, you can get rid of the
underscore on the empty paragraph by changing its style --to, say, normal. If you just manually remove the underscore, it may come back if you modify or update the style. Pam Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you have made the border part of the Header style, then it will appear on every page; once you've created a header anywhere, you will have an empty paragraph in the header even when you have no header content, and that empty paragraph will have the border. As Stefan notes, however, you don't need a section break to get a different header/footer/margins on the first page. Win XP Pro / Office 2002 SP3 I have a set of documents (±160) that require a different first page [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] page, i.e. just the lines. What else do I need to do to get rid of this header and footer? -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200911/1 |
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Oh, gee. I could have sworn that I'd had this problem at a client site less
than 6 months ago. In testing today, I did notice though that if the paragraph mark is not empty or if there is more than one, the underscore will show in print layout view. That may give Johann Swart something to look for. Pam Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I wondered about that, too, as it does seem to me this behavior is changed in Word 2007. Hard to tell given that the paragraph mark is there as soon as you access the header, but I'll take your word for it that this has been "fixed" (even in Word 2003). I guess we get so used to working around longstanding bugs that we just don't notice when we don't have to any more! Suzanne, [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] . -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200911/1 |
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I have "solved" the problem by opening a new blank document, and from the old
document copied and inserted the first, the second, and the third sections individually, each time manually creating a new section instead of copying it from the old document. That has solved my problem for now, although I still don't know why it happened in the first place. "Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" wrote: Oh, gee. I could have sworn that I'd had this problem at a client site less than 6 months ago. In testing today, I did notice though that if the paragraph mark is not empty or if there is more than one, the underscore will show in print layout view. That may give Johann Swart something to look for. Pam Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I wondered about that, too, as it does seem to me this behavior is changed in Word 2007. Hard to tell given that the paragraph mark is there as soon as you access the header, but I'll take your word for it that this has been "fixed" (even in Word 2003). I guess we get so used to working around longstanding bugs that we just don't notice when we don't have to any more! Suzanne, [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] . -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ayout/200911/1 . |
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