headers and footer anomaly

[Tommy]

I am working with a document that goes from portrait to landscape and back
again several times. As we all know, the margins for the headers and
footers when the page changes orientation. I have notice, however, with
great inconsistency that if I click "same as previous" icon, sometimes the
header and footer adjust to the correct size and sometime they don't. Any
clues on this anomaly? (using Word 2000)

Thanks,
Tommy

 

[Peter Hewett]

Hi Tommy

If your Header/Footer contents are simple then you can get away with
Portrait/Landscape/Portrait flips. If you're using simple left/center/right
justification all's well. You can even add a horizontal line after your
header or before your footer that will automatically span the width of the
page. Just set the line before/after using the Format>Borders and Shading>
Borders>Paragraph.

However, once you start using tabs, tables, Frames, Texboxes etc, things go
wrong really fast. All these things anchor text to a particular position.
Think about it some in the context of the above and it'll start to make sense
(slowly!).

HTH + Cheers - Peter