Try this link:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm

You want to set up Different first page.

"Jag Man" wrote:

My wife creates the monthly newsletter for a group. It is 2-3 pages
long. By tradition there is a list of officers,
organization logo, and date of the issue at the top of the first page.
I have set this up in the header, and have
a section break at the very beginning of the document.

The problem is one of "disappearing header." She's working on the
document and all of a sudden the
header is gone. I have traced the problem to see what causes it.
Apparently, she inadvertantly deletes
the section break, and that's what makes the header go away. I believe
this is because the initial section,
which has nothing in it and exists only to "hold" the header, gets
deleted along with the break, and that's
the section with the header. There is no undo for this action,
so unless she immediately leaves Word without saving the header is
lost and gone forever. The only
recovery is to go back to a previous issue of the newsleter and start
over, losing all changes made for the
issue being written.

I have looked into how I might "lock" that part of the document so
this can't happen. I checked Help and
the FAQs, but found nothing that directly applies... or at least not
as I understand. Options for
Protecting seem to be based on Subdocuments or Forms, neither of which
seems appropriate for the
initial section. The FAQs gives a couple suggestions for locking the
contents of the header, but they would seem
not to prevent the entire thing from deletion.

Any ideas for solving this problem.

TIA,

Ed

Try this link:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm

You want to set up Different first page.


Ok, I read it. Will this lead to a first page header that will not
have a deleatable
section break? I.e., will it solve my problem?

Thanks.

Ed

Read it again. You don't need a section break, just a separate First Page
Header in which you put the newsletter nameplate. FWIW, any deletion can be
undone.

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"Jag Man" wrote in message
...
Try this link:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/wordfaqs/Letterhead.htm

You want to set up Different first page.


Ok, I read it. Will this lead to a first page header that will not
have a deleatable
section break? I.e., will it solve my problem?

Thanks.

Ed

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Read it again. You don't need a section break, just a separate First
Page

I forgot to mention that after the header the document is 2-column.
That is why the section break is there.


Header in which you put the newsletter nameplate. FWIW, any deletion
can be
undone.

In some cases Undo is grayed on the Edit menu. That's what I'm seeing
in this case. I've
used Word for many years, and have encountered other times when Undo
is not supported.

Thanks.

Ed

Is the entire newsletter two columns? Because if you set the entire
document to two columns, the header will still span both columns. No
section breaks required.

In fact, people often complain about this.


On 8/8/05 11:40 PM, "Jag Man" wrote:


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Read it again. You don't need a section break, just a separate First
Page

I forgot to mention that after the header the document is 2-column.
That is why the section break is there.


Header in which you put the newsletter nameplate. FWIW, any deletion
can be
undone.

In some cases Undo is grayed on the Edit menu. That's what I'm seeing
in this case. I've
used Word for many years, and have encountered other times when Undo
is not supported.

Thanks.

Ed



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Yes, it is. I think at one time the header material was not in a
header, and that made
it necessary to do a Section break to get to the 2-column format.

Thanks.

Ed


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
Is the entire newsletter two columns? Because if you set the entire
document to two columns, the header will still span both columns.
No
section breaks required.

In fact, people often complain about this.