Applying Custom Templates: Headers, Footers not appearing

[MichelleL]

Hello
First off, thank you for creating these forums. Ne'er has there been
URL that so expresses my feelings at the moment.

After banging my head against the wall and fighting with Visual Basi
to create a template full of fancy bells and whistles for my client
I've come up against a probably simple, but amazingly annoying issue.

When I apply my template to a document, the headers and footers don'
appear. I don't understand. (Yes, I click View --> Headers, Footers.
They're not there.

I go back to the template. They exist. I create a new document. The
exist. I apply the template to a document with no headers/footers (o
in some cases existing headers/footers) and nothing.

If it were just for me, I'd come up with a workaround. But I need t
hand this template off to a client who needs to work with it. Cuttin
and pasting, etc, isn't going to do it.

Surely there is a way to make the headers and footers appear whe
applying to an EXISTING document.

Thank you so much, in advance, for any help you might provide.

Cheers,
Michell

Almost forgot - I'm using Word 2003

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It is a not that uncommon misconception, but that is not the way templates
work. You will need to create a new document from the template and then
copy and paste the content of the existing document into that new document,
being careful not to paste over the final paragraph mark that "contains" the
header and footer information.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To add to what Doug has said, you may want to read
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/attachtemplate/index.html