Are you sure it's Outline view? Typically, when you use View | Header and
Footer, Word switches to Print Layout view. If you display the Tables and
Borders toolbar, it also switches to Print Layout (but the toolbar is
retained if you switch back to Normal); this doesn't happen if you use the
Insert Table button on the Standard toolbar.

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"Sandip" wrote in message
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Whenever I try to insert a table or header etc. the view reverts to
'outline'
and when I return it to 'normal' or 'web' the table/header is cancelled.