Entering the Footer

[Hal]

One of my clients has a MacBook running version 12.1.5 of Word 2008. She
can't double-click to enter the Header or Footer and has to choose the
Header and Footer command from the View menu to make edits to either.

Is there a fix for this problem?

 

[CyberTaz]

There is no setting to turn that capability on/off so the most likely cause
is that the Top & Bottom Margins are set to something less than what the
Header & Footer Margins are (or that the H/F margins are set to something
like 0"). That's the first thing to check.

If that isn't the problem more information is necessary - such as: Does this
happen an one specific document or all documents including freshly created
new ones? Any additional details about the document(s) where this occurs?
What *does* happen when the dbl-clicking attempt is made?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

I am with Bob on this one: Headers and footers do not "exist" until you
turn them on in Format>Document and then put some text in them. Or choose
View>Header and Footer...

Note: The header and footer must be "visible" ‹ in other words, if you have
the document in Draft view, the only way to get to them is View...

Once they exist, then you can double-click to get into them.

Cheers

There is no setting to turn that capability on/off so the most likely cause
is that the Top & Bottom Margins are set to something less than what the
Header & Footer Margins are (or that the H/F margins are set to something
like 0"). That's the first thing to check.

If that isn't the problem more information is necessary - such as: Does this
happen an one specific document or all documents including freshly created
new ones? Any additional details about the document(s) where this occurs?
What *does* happen when the dbl-clicking attempt is made?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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