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header/footer issue when converting document
Hi,
Ive got a 62 page Word document which has different odd page and even page headers, which views and prints perfectly from within Word (XP). However, when I convert the Word document to a .pdf file with Acrobat 7, the 'even' page heading shows in the resulting pdf with an earlier instance of our header (the 'odd' page translates fine). Its quite bizarre - I look at the same document in one window as a Word file and I can see our most recent header on screen and in print, and in another window is the converted pdf of the same file and that shows a completely different header! Ive edited the header in the original file several times to try to resolve it, even clicking in the header field and selecting all and remove, but STILL in a resultant pdf the old header rears its head ;o) again. I did try to create a new section break to 'push' the unwanted header off the bottom of the document but that didnt work for me either. The only possible workaround I can come up with is to create a brand new Word document and copy and paste my content into it, but I'd have to do that for the content of each page individually because as soon as I copy beyond a page break then the old header seems to come with it. Isnt there a way to 'force' Word to abandon ALL header/footer info so I can start again and insert the content I want? |
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Header and footer information is contained in section breaks. This appears
to be a problem with your method of generating pdf files. You might try a different converter. CutePDF is available as a free download. -- 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. "snr" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive got a 62 page Word document which has different odd page and even page headers, which views and prints perfectly from within Word (XP). However, when I convert the Word document to a .pdf file with Acrobat 7, the 'even' page heading shows in the resulting pdf with an earlier instance of our header (the 'odd' page translates fine). Its quite bizarre - I look at the same document in one window as a Word file and I can see our most recent header on screen and in print, and in another window is the converted pdf of the same file and that shows a completely different header! Ive edited the header in the original file several times to try to resolve it, even clicking in the header field and selecting all and remove, but STILL in a resultant pdf the old header rears its head ;o) again. I did try to create a new section break to 'push' the unwanted header off the bottom of the document but that didnt work for me either. The only possible workaround I can come up with is to create a brand new Word document and copy and paste my content into it, but I'd have to do that for the content of each page individually because as soon as I copy beyond a page break then the old header seems to come with it. Isnt there a way to 'force' Word to abandon ALL header/footer info so I can start again and insert the content I want? |
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Using Word 2003 SP1 and Adobe Acrobat Professional 7
I have a similar problem. I have a mail merge document withe a header containing a horizontal line. When converting the merged documents to PDF using Adobe 7.0.3, PDFMaker only the last 11 spooled documents contain the horizontal line. After extensive testing, the problem always occurs starting with the 12th document. -- Regards, Ward "snr" wrote: Hi, Ive got a 62 page Word document which has different odd page and even page headers, which views and prints perfectly from within Word (XP). However, when I convert the Word document to a .pdf file with Acrobat 7, the 'even' page heading shows in the resulting pdf with an earlier instance of our header (the 'odd' page translates fine). Its quite bizarre - I look at the same document in one window as a Word file and I can see our most recent header on screen and in print, and in another window is the converted pdf of the same file and that shows a completely different header! Ive edited the header in the original file several times to try to resolve it, even clicking in the header field and selecting all and remove, but STILL in a resultant pdf the old header rears its head ;o) again. I did try to create a new section break to 'push' the unwanted header off the bottom of the document but that didnt work for me either. The only possible workaround I can come up with is to create a brand new Word document and copy and paste my content into it, but I'd have to do that for the content of each page individually because as soon as I copy beyond a page break then the old header seems to come with it. Isnt there a way to 'force' Word to abandon ALL header/footer info so I can start again and insert the content I want? |
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Can we simply delete all section breaks as a single step throughout the
document? As I already said, simply changing the header works fine within word, its only when its exported its an issue. And thanks for the advice a different converter but Im afraid Im stuck with Acrobat 7 - my company chose this tool for better or for worse and I cant go outside that even for a free one "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Header and footer information is contained in section breaks. This appears to be a problem with your method of generating pdf files. You might try a different converter. CutePDF is available as a free download. -- 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. "snr" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive got a 62 page Word document which has different odd page and even page headers, which views and prints perfectly from within Word (XP). However, when I convert the Word document to a .pdf file with Acrobat 7, the 'even' page heading shows in the resulting pdf with an earlier instance of our header (the 'odd' page translates fine). Its quite bizarre - I look at the same document in one window as a Word file and I can see our most recent header on screen and in print, and in another window is the converted pdf of the same file and that shows a completely different header! Ive edited the header in the original file several times to try to resolve it, even clicking in the header field and selecting all and remove, but STILL in a resultant pdf the old header rears its head ;o) again. I did try to create a new section break to 'push' the unwanted header off the bottom of the document but that didnt work for me either. The only possible workaround I can come up with is to create a brand new Word document and copy and paste my content into it, but I'd have to do that for the content of each page individually because as soon as I copy beyond a page break then the old header seems to come with it. Isnt there a way to 'force' Word to abandon ALL header/footer info so I can start again and insert the content I want? |
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