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Useful example to explain headers and footers?
Any idea of a useful object lesson to explain how headers and footers
work? I am doing training for the administration team in our organization on Monday and I know headers and footers can be very confusing (so confusing that we often get documents from engineers with the request to "fix the headers and footers" after they have given up on making them behave after changing a few sections to landscape, back to portrait, etc.) We have Word 2003 SP2 in our organization You start with Section 1. Give it a blank header and footer. If you add a section break, you have a Section 2. Go into Page Setup and check "Different page" Under First Page Section 2 Header make "Header a" and Footer "Footer a" Then put a new page in the document and go to header footer. Make it Header "Header a" and Footer "Footer a" (WITHOUT taking off the Same as Previous) When they go back to the first page of the document (Section 1) and see that it says "Header a" and "Footer a" They are very confused. I'm trying to think of example to explain the different "Categories" that a header and footer field can be filled by. And how Same as Previous affects previous headers, but only within the same category. Not just later ones. (There is a persistent thought somehow that what you do on any section will only cascade through the rest of the document. For example, if Section 2 is pages 2-11 of the document, and you go in to page 6 and hit "View Header/Footer" -- they expect it to only change pages 6 through the end of the document, not every page in the section plus possibly previous and next sections as well depending on how the various options are set.) |
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Useful example to explain headers and footers?
You might have a look at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm, but I offer no guarantees. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchreffler" wrote in message oups.com... Any idea of a useful object lesson to explain how headers and footers work? I am doing training for the administration team in our organization on Monday and I know headers and footers can be very confusing (so confusing that we often get documents from engineers with the request to "fix the headers and footers" after they have given up on making them behave after changing a few sections to landscape, back to portrait, etc.) We have Word 2003 SP2 in our organization You start with Section 1. Give it a blank header and footer. If you add a section break, you have a Section 2. Go into Page Setup and check "Different page" Under First Page Section 2 Header make "Header a" and Footer "Footer a" Then put a new page in the document and go to header footer. Make it Header "Header a" and Footer "Footer a" (WITHOUT taking off the Same as Previous) When they go back to the first page of the document (Section 1) and see that it says "Header a" and "Footer a" They are very confused. I'm trying to think of example to explain the different "Categories" that a header and footer field can be filled by. And how Same as Previous affects previous headers, but only within the same category. Not just later ones. (There is a persistent thought somehow that what you do on any section will only cascade through the rest of the document. For example, if Section 2 is pages 2-11 of the document, and you go in to page 6 and hit "View Header/Footer" -- they expect it to only change pages 6 through the end of the document, not every page in the section plus possibly previous and next sections as well depending on how the various options are set.) |
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