Hoping for some advice please

[Hoib]

I posted this the other day: Have an new organization letterhead prep'd by someone who didn't use a text
box nor a header/footer but applied the picture of the logo to a blank doc.
Click on the image and Word "boxes" it which is what I expect. But I can't
view the logo/heading in View > Normal. I have to go to View > Print View
or View > Reading Layout to see where I'm positioned.

How can I view the logo/heading in a Normal view? I've visited Tools >
Options >View but can't find a setting.

I guess I can live with View > Print View. But now I'd also like to ask the group if it's possible to insert or add a picture in a header? Is it possible to add (drag and drop) a table into a header? Everytime I try either of these two, they just stay where they are in the body. I can't move them up into the header. Cut/copy and paste isn't working either. I just need to know if what I'm trying is even possible or not. I think I've done this before with earlier versions of Word but can't be sure as it was many years back.

Basically, what I'm trying to do is set the letterhead up as a template so that users CAN NOT type in the logo graphic areas at the top and bottom. I figure putting the graphic and textual elements into headers and footers is the answer. It's got to be possible, right?

 

[lynn.taylor]

Hi Hoib - you can copy and paste or move the graphic and/or table into
the header in a document. Select the table or graphic, click on Edit,
Copy or Edit Cut, click on View, Headers/Footers. Place your cursor
inside the header frame and click on Paste. If you copied your
table/graphic then a copy of it remains in the main body of the
document as well, so you would need to go back to the main body and
delete it otherwise it appears twice. Once you have pasted your
table/graphic into your header close the Header/Footer by clicking on
Close on the Header/Footer toolbar.

Regards

 

[Hoib]

Lynn - thanks for your advice. The blasted objects just will not go in this
header!!! I've tried it again (for the umpteenth time) with cut and paste,
copy and paste, drag and drop - no go! When I cut and paste, I follow your
sequence exactly. Headers and Footers are off > Original Object > right
click > Cut > Paste > View > Headers and Footers > cursor already positioned
in header > right click > paste > and nothing goes in the header -but- the
pasted image now appears overlaid slightly above and slightly to right of
the original! What's going on here? Print Preview again shows the two
objects and nothing appears in the header. Arrrgh! This is maddening. Can
you think of anything I need to "turn on" in Options perhaps? Maybe I'm not
"seeing" this correctly on the screen - the header section is smaller than
the picture and table elements but I don't know how to increase the size of
the header area?

I appreciate the help, though. I really do!

Hoib

 

[lynn.taylor]

I can see a hole in your sequence:
Headers and Footers off > Original Object . right click > Cut > Paste
- this is wrong, after you > Cut do not Paste, click on View >
Headers/Footers > curose in position THEN paste.

You can increase the size of the header by using the vertical rule at
the side of the screen in header view, drag the bottom margin marker
downwards.

If I send you a live meeting request I can show you what I mean on
screen? whats your email address

 

[Hoib]

OK -- Uncle!!! I surrender!!!

The table just will not go into the header. I tried everything. You know,
it almost looks like inserting a table in a header is a forbidden practice
because it simply reappears on the paste in the same position (the body)
from whence I cut it. I went the extra mile and tried to slilde the table
into a text box and take that text box up into the header.

So what I had to do was this. Show Header/Footer and then completely
rebuild a completely brand new blank table in the header which Word -would-
let me do. I wish I'd known that without wasting a lot of your (and my)
time. So now it's set.

And at least I learned now where the header can be sized. Thanks for that!


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