Ive been having trouble with my "normal" formatting auto-updating to reflect
any specific changes Ive made (change font size, bold, etc). Whenever this
happened, a Carriage-Return would appear in my footers.

Ive since resolved the problem by removing "Auto-Update" from the Normal
format. It makes sense that it was taking a change that I made and changing
Normal to match. But why the extra whitespace?

Thanks!
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-=Steve Wrona - MCSA, RCT, VCP

Hi Steve

Do you mean a carriage return (looks like a left-pointing curved arrow) or a
paragraph mark (¶)?

If you experiment a bit with a blank document, you'll see that once a header
or footer has held any text at all, it will always have a blank paragraph
mark when you go to edit it.

By default the Footer style is based on Normal. So if the Normal style is
being changed, Word may interpret this as a change to the Footer, and thus
display the paragraph mark.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Steve Wrona" wrote in message
...
Ive been having trouble with my "normal" formatting auto-updating to
reflect
any specific changes Ive made (change font size, bold, etc). Whenever
this
happened, a Carriage-Return would appear in my footers.

Ive since resolved the problem by removing "Auto-Update" from the Normal
format. It makes sense that it was taking a change that I made and
changing
Normal to match. But why the extra whitespace?

Thanks!
--
-=Steve Wrona - MCSA, RCT, VCP

Its not just one CR that appears, but several throughout the course of
editing my document. I think Ive associated the problem to any change that I
make to any style that is defined as "updatable".

Ex.)
If font size is "updateable" in "Body Text", and I then change the size of
the font, this causes a CR to appear in the footer, regardless of whether
that style is in use in the footer.

--
-=Steve Wrona - MCSA, RCT, VCP


"Shauna Kelly" wrote:

Hi Steve

Do you mean a carriage return (looks like a left-pointing curved arrow) or a
paragraph mark (¶)?

If you experiment a bit with a blank document, you'll see that once a header
or footer has held any text at all, it will always have a blank paragraph
mark when you go to edit it.

By default the Footer style is based on Normal. So if the Normal style is
being changed, Word may interpret this as a change to the Footer, and thus
display the paragraph mark.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Steve Wrona" wrote in message
...
Ive been having trouble with my "normal" formatting auto-updating to
reflect
any specific changes Ive made (change font size, bold, etc). Whenever
this
happened, a Carriage-Return would appear in my footers.

Ive since resolved the problem by removing "Auto-Update" from the Normal
format. It makes sense that it was taking a change that I made and
changing
Normal to match. But why the extra whitespace?

Thanks!
--
-=Steve Wrona - MCSA, RCT, VCP