footer in Word 97

[Scott Richardson]

Hello from chilly Minnesota.
I have a document that I drafted and each page is to have a signature line
and the page number at the bottom (in the footer). Done this many times
without trouble, but I have a draft of a current project (a Trust document)
and the footer is surroundged by forward leaning slashes instead of a box
surrounded/bordering th entire footer area. I can not delete this format of
the footer in order to have the format with the border made up of -------
marks. This border shows only in the page layout view and not on the final
printed document. What has happened? Thank you.

Scott in Austin MN

 

[mpt]

Scott,

I've tried to duplicate that one by fiddling with the format options once
you "View headers/footers." I can select some fancy borders for the footer
but didn't see one that used a slash.

If you delete the footer and recreate it, do the slashes come back?

Maybe you could save the text of your doct to a blank page and then recreate
the footer.

Sorry, this is a lame attempt at a workaround.

Richard