Re: Header and Footer disappearing

From: John Gardner (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/04


Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:43:05 -0800

Hi Doug

I will be glad to send the document. Where should I send
it?

I am gussing I posted my previous reply wrong?
It doesnt seem to be placed properly in the sequence?

Thank you for your time

Have a nice day/evening ;-)

>-----Original Message-----
>I can't actually replicate your problem. If you want to
send a document to
>me, I will take a look at it.
>
>--
>Please post any further questions or followup to the
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>benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited
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>directly to me will only be answered on a paid
consulting basis.
>
>Hope this helps
>Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>"John G" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:5f9301c40112$df1a0500$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi Doug
>>
>> Sorry, but your answer did not really address my
>> question. I am well aware that the header and footer
info
>> is stored in the section break. They keep disappearing
>> every time I delete the section break. ;-(
>>
>> I will try to be more precise.
>> 1) How do I get rid of the header/footer information on
>> that particular section break? I want to DELETE the
>> section break but not the header/footer.
>>
>> 2) How did the information get in the section break?
>> I have used section/page breaks many times and usually
>> delete them like regular text. Yet, I cannot really
think
>> of this happening before. i.e.: What did the user do to
>> create this undesirable section break? I cannot
recreate
>> a section break that deletes my header/footer.
>>
>> Getting my soapbox out...
>> I have posted here a few times and found the people to
be
>> informative and helpful, but usually it comes back to
>> Word and its quirkiness. I have 30+ years of
professional
>> publishing under my belt and have access to most
>> professional page layout programs. QuarkXpress is my
>> choice for page layout. However, even Quark has it
>> drawbacks. Example, page/section numbering;
>> indexing/contents generation; end notes/footnotes are
>> features that I find very useful. Quark has next to
>> nothing in this department, i.e.: the word-processing
>> part vs. page layout part.
>> IMHO - The most frustrating part about Word is its
>> unpredictability with so many seemingly unrelated
items.
>> Like my current problem, I have deleted many section
>> breaks before, now all of a sudden this is happening.
>>
>> If you read my previous posts, you will see my
>> bewilderment when dealing with art in a Word document.
>> Art jumping around has to be top "what were they
>> thinking" question when incorporating art into a Word
>> document. This has to be the top complaint I have from
>> users/students. I have always felt there should be an
>> option that says "DO NOT MOVE THIS ART."
>>
>> and and and lol...
>>
>> Hey! Why are they taking my soapbox away?
>>
>> As a troubleshooter I have
>> failed miserably ... sniffle ;-(
>>
>> Thanks for any info you can give ;-)
>>
>> And thank you for your time
>>
>> Have a nice day/evening ;-)
>>
>> John Gardner
>>
>
>
>.
>



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