Re: Headers & Footers

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:06:37 -0600

"Scott" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm going to rant for a while here b/c I'm hoping that
> one of the Admin's of M.S. Word has fixed this in later
> releases. Or at the very least will mention it for
> considerations in a patch.
>
People who work for Microsoft generally don't read these newsgroups or
respond to messages posted here. The only responses your are likely to get
are from your fellow Word users. While they may sympathize, they won't
appreciate the rant.

Which version of Word might you be using now?

> I'm working on project specifications and have to merge
> about 15 separate documents, all of which have there own
> headers and footers. When I started putting them
> together I noticed that the Headers and Footers were
> changing from what they originally were. I
> thought "Fine" I'll just go and change them one at a
> time. RIGHT - Whatever !
>
> After playing ping pong with these for a while I found
> out about "Section breaks". So, I thought cool, now I
> can fix these and get back to work. Heck No ! These
> aren't that easy to use. Plus the fact that you can only
> see Headers and Footers in Print View BUT you can't see
> where the Section Breaks are Hmmm, don't these go
> together? Why do I have to switch views back and forth?
> What a pain ! Who's the brain that programmed this?
> Now M.S. Word has wasted my entire day messing with
> Headers & Footers and I still haven't gotten any
> further.
>

You can see where section breaks are by turning that option on in the view
options. Or click the paragraph mark in your toolbar.

You have wasted a lot of time by trying to work with sections without
bothering to learn how they work. Word is a complex piece of software and
perhaps should come with warning labels.

Take a look at the MVP FAQ page on working with sections. (site in sig line)

> Day 2
> I looked through the user groups for a way to turn this
> stupid thing off. There are way too many automated
> features in Word that you have to struggle with just to
> get a simple document to look the way you want. I think
> I could have typed this on a old rusty manual type writer
> faster. It's fine to have them - just give us the
> option to turn the darn things off when we don't want
> them. So, I'm still not finished with my project
> specs. From looking at the volume of related posts on
> this user group I don't think anyone is getting anything
> accomplished except pulling their hair out over something
> that shouldn't be this complicated.
>
> What was said about Office ? Something about getting
> more productivity - HA ! what a joke (or a flat out lie)

Again, you are trying to fly a 747, or at least a Beechcraft. You are
frustrated because you know how to land a paper airplane and what can be the
big difference. You are crashing and it hurts. I'm sorry. If you aren't
willing to take the time to learn how to use Word, perhaps you would be
happier using WordPad. Some things are relatively easy to do in Word, but
merging 15 different documents and preserving headers/footers isn't one of
them. 

-- 
Charles Kenyon
See the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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