Well, the problem is that if you ever touch the header in Normal.dot (or any
template), you are left with an empty paragraph in the header, which one
would expect to interfere with labels, but when you use Word's built-in
label definitions, it uses its built-in magic to set the header/footer
margin to 0" and somehow suppress any error messages about being outside the
printable area, so I've always been curious about whether putting a header
in Normal.dot would *really* cause problems with labels (much less
envelopes). It's nice to have confirmation of what I was beginning to fear
was just superstition or an old wives' tale.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
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Just by the way--I recently tested this with MacWord, and despite hiding
the header in the second page--the first page of labels *and* the
envelope continued to be as screwed up as if I had put the header on
every page. WinWord may differ, of course--I offer this as a curiosity.
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If you have Normal.dot set up with "Different first page" and content
only
in the Header (not in the First Page Header), this would not pose *as
much*
of a problem with labels, since you have to work at it to get more than
one
sheet, and when you merge them, each sheet is a separate section (all
page
1s, as it were).