Header and Footer Pane

[patrick j]

Hello

I've been quite enjoying using Office 2008. I'm wondering if I am not
seeing something obvious. I usually write in what used to be called
"Normal" view and now of course is "Draft" view. I liked to use the "Header
and Footer Pane" rather than having Word switch to "Print Layout" view to
put in headers and footers, however now I can't see any preference to
change this. If I put header and footer into the search field of the
preferences it does take me enthusiastically to the View preference pane
but I cannot see any way there to set this.

Thank you.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Patrick:

Yeah, I am a bit keen on the Draft view, too. Not only is it dramatically
faster (and more stable!) on large documents, but it shows all the control
characters so I have a much better idea of what I am actually doing.

In Draft View, View>Headers and Footers will take you into the Headers and
Footers view.

However, Word will switch to Print Layout View to do this.

It must do this, because Headers and Footers are a product of the Pagination
Engine: they do not exist unless the document is paginating. So Word has to
switch to a Paginated view to show them to you.

What should happen is that it should switch back to Draft view when you
close the Header and Footer pane. This is working correctly for me.

Hope this helps

Hello

I've been quite enjoying using Office 2008. I'm wondering if I am not
seeing something obvious. I usually write in what used to be called
"Normal" view and now of course is "Draft" view. I liked to use the "Header
and Footer Pane" rather than having Word switch to "Print Layout" view to
put in headers and footers, however now I can't see any preference to
change this. If I put header and footer into the search field of the
preferences it does take me enthusiastically to the View preference pane
but I cannot see any way there to set this.

Thank you.

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[patrick j]

In Draft View, View>Headers and Footers will take you into the Headers and
Footers view.

However, Word will switch to Print Layout View to do this.

Hi John

With Word for Mac 2004 it was possible to have Headers and Footers in a
separate pane in what was then called "Normal View" just like footnotes.

With Word 2004 there was a preference, for which the default was that it
would go from "Normal View" to "Page Layout View" to edit Headers and
Footers, but that preference could be switched such that in Normal View the
Headers and Footers would open in a separate pane within Normal View.

With Word for Mac 2008 there doesn't appear to be this preference to enable
opening of Headers and Footers in a separate pane still within "Draft
View".

Thank you

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, you're right. Word 2008 can't do this, for the reason I mentioned.

Cheers

Hi John

With Word for Mac 2004 it was possible to have Headers and Footers in a
separate pane in what was then called "Normal View" just like footnotes.

With Word 2004 there was a preference, for which the default was that it
would go from "Normal View" to "Page Layout View" to edit Headers and
Footers, but that preference could be switched such that in Normal View the
Headers and Footers would open in a separate pane within Normal View.

With Word for Mac 2008 there doesn't appear to be this preference to enable
opening of Headers and Footers in a separate pane still within "Draft
View".

Thank you

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
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Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
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