Groovy no?
So all there is in my header is a giant picture that is the border, its
set to be behind the text. In my footer is just a page number. I
tried going into headers and footers and seeing if I could manipulate
them but I cant. They're overlaid on top of everything.
I took at look at the pages with the bolt on the side and I cant find
much difference between them.
If I go into normal view, they aren't there.
It's only in this version of the document. I have an earlier version
with the same headers and footers and they're just fine.
I just opened the document on a PC with Word 2k3 and its giving me the
same lightning bolt.
What happens if you make a version of the document without the header
picture?
I'm thinking perhaps something has gone wrong because of differing page
margins between your PC and your Mac. Perhaps the picture will not fit
on the Mac's idea of the printable area, and something has gone
horribly wrong as a result.
If the lightning dies down with the picture gone, try shrinking the
original in GraphicConverter a little bit, before putting it back in.
Avoid resizing the picture in Word. There be dragons!
(I'm now going through a re-installation of Office, because I screwed
it up looking for lightning bolts. I should know better. I was getting
cocky poking inside things where I shouldn't have been, dragged Word
aside when I thought I was copying it, and mashed it up big-time.
Why oh why does Microsoft crap all over your computer when all you
should have to do is copy a package from the distribution CD?
There is a proper way to do it, and there is the slap-happy Microsoft
way. I guess it thinks the whole world accepts that the Registry is a
Good Thing and therefore anything less horrible (i.e everything else
in the whole world of computing) is acceptable. Why Oh Why are some
files properly in ~/Library/Preferences/ , others in
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ , and still others of the same kind in
/Applications/ ?? That's where it puts my global template. So every
user on my machine has to live with my macros and special styles I keep
out of normal because it such a fragile flower. Yes yes yes I *know* it
is better than Word v.X, but why only do it half right?
You would think that if all I did was accidentally delete the Word
application (which turned out not to be a package), I could copy a
fresh one from the CD. Sure I can. But it won't run.
The CD says I can drag all of Office to my hard disk. I works, but it
fails to tell me that the new one won't be able to find some framework
or other. So now I'm off to do the whole remove and reinstall Office
malarkey. It reminds me all too clearly what it was like looking after
PCs in the dark early days. What a palaver!
They just don't care do they?
Wait! It found the framework after I ran the auto updater to bring
everything up to the latest rev again. PFM.
The update was painless. I'll give 'em that.
OK Beth. How many days will you give me before I *really* have to
remove and re-install?
Eveljkov, I feel like I was *struck* by lightning. Serves me right! I
should have been playing that music from Dukas "Sorcerer's Apprentice"
as I tried to hack inside Word.
... perhaps by pasting content