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Inserting footnote brings in copy of header and footer
One of our users inserted a footnote in a document, and a copy of the header
and footer (uneditable/un-deletable) appeared at the end of the page, just above the footnote. Strangely, the footer was pulled from an appendix -- and the footnote was inserted in chapter 1. We are using Word's StyleRef field in the headers and footers to pull information from the cover page of the document -- if that has any significance. We have a master document that serves as a template for documents (which was used for the problem document). When I opened a copy of the original and inserted footnotes, they functioned properly. Should I chalk this up to a " MS Word moment" and copy and paste into a fresh document -- or does someone have an explanation? Thanks. -- susan |
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Inserting footnote brings in copy of header and footer
Hi Susan
Susan L wrote: One of our users inserted a footnote in a document, and a copy of the header and footer (uneditable/un-deletable) appeared at the end of the page, just above the footnote. Strangely, the footer was pulled from an appendix -- and the footnote was inserted in chapter 1. We are using Word's StyleRef field in the headers and footers to pull information from the cover page of the document -- if that has any significance. most likely explanation seems to be that this "reference" has somehow become part of the footnote separator -- you cannot edit that thing in PageLayoutView. But you can do so through NormalView | View | Footnotes, there in the dropdown box select the separator. ISTR that there is a "reset" button there, too. We have a master document that serves as a template for documents (which was used for the problem document). When I opened a copy of the original and inserted footnotes, they functioned properly. Should I chalk this up to a " MS Word moment" and copy and paste into a fresh document -- or does someone have an explanation? Thanks. See above. It might well be that the MasterDocument itself is the culprit of corrupting your documents (I've never heard of an MD as a _template_ before, I must admit). Not handled with extreme care, a MD is pretty likely to create havoc to your data ... The Word newsgroups are full of pointer to articles discussing when and why not to use this feature. Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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