No "gremlins", just Section Breaks.
Headers and Footers are stored in section breaks: if the section breaks are
coming and going, so will the headers and footers.
The header and footer for a page is contained in the section break FOLLOWING
the page (or right at the bottom of it).
-- If there is a section break on the page, it contains the header and
footer for that page.
-- If there is no section break on the page, the header and footer are
contained in the closest FOLLOWING section break.
-- There are three headers and three footers in a section: First Page, Left
Page, and Right Page.
-- Headers and footers do not have any content until you add some. Unless
you have "Different Odd and Even" and "Different First Page" set, only one
header and one footer will have content. Check "Different First Page" to
create the First Page header and footer in addition to the default header
and footer. Check "Different Odd and Even" to create a Left Page header and
footer in addition to the others.
Now make sure none of your section breaks inadvertently changes pages or
becomes hidden. If the Section Break is hidden text or you have tracked
changes on and the section break is marked as deleted text, then its headers
and footers will disappear.
Chances are you have spaces pushing your section breaks to the next page.
If that happens, your headers and footers go too.
Never use spaces to line things up in Word. I know it's tempting, but just
don't do it: a "space" is a variable-width character in a proportional font
-- you cannot know how wide it is. The Justification routine will change
spaces to make the line fit.
If you need a fixed width space, use the characters EM Space, EN Space, Thin
Space and Thin Thin Space (respectively these are the width of the capital
letter M, half that, a quarter of that, and an eighth of that). The fixed
spaces are so named because they can NOT be changed in width by the
justification routines.
But it's far better to use either tables or tabs to line things up: you get
far fewer surprises like headers and footers magically coming and going
Cheers
Please help me! I've been sitting in front of my computer for three
days trying to figure out how to get all my footers to show up (it's
not an issue of not enough space/margin at the bottom of the page). It
seems to have to do with spaces at the top of pages and page breaks
that mysteriously appear all on their own and "sections". I am trying
to put together a newsletter for a non-profit. This newsletter has
pages that are both one and two columns. On two pages in particular
the footers come and go. I am wondering if I have "gremlins" invisibly
imbedded that are causing problems.
If anyone can help, could you please email me directly because I'm not
even sure I will even be able to find this discussion group.
Thanks in advance.
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John McGhie <
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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
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