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Helen Davey
 
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Default why is the text overwriting itself in a header or footer?

One of my students was entering text into a header and the letters kept
overwriting themselves in the same place, ie one on top of the other - does
anyone know why this might have happened and what can we do to prevent it?

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Graham Mayor
 
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Default why is the text overwriting itself in a header or footer?

According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to
have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer currently in
use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from File=Print and switch
to the printer properties or to another printer then your normal one, or
close Word and delete all files found on Start=Search and looking for
~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Helen Davey wrote:
One of my students was entering text into a header and the letters
kept overwriting themselves in the same place, ie one on top of the
other - does anyone know why this might have happened and what can we
do to prevent it?



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