Deleting headers and footers

[MGD]

Is there a way I delete all headers and footers.

 

[grammatim]

Nope -- once you've inserted a header or footer, it's in the document
forever, but you can simply delete all the content from it, and you
won't know it's there.

 

[grammatim]

Nope -- once you've inserted a header or footer, it's in the document
forever, but you can simply delete all the content from it, and you
won't know it's there.

 

[Trish1]

It looks like it is still taking up space!! Worse, I can't delete the
centered page number and it still shows up on each page. I can't copy just
the page content to another doc without including the header space & pg #,
Please help, I'm desperate.

 

[grammatim]

What did you try to do to delete the page no.?

Go into your header, put your cursor next to the page number, and
press Backspace or Delete (depending which side of it you're on).

If that doesn't work, maybe someone put the page no. in a frame/text
box. Click around on it until the square box appears (is selected),
then delete it.

You set your header and footer "margins" to zero in the Page Setup
dialog, which you get to in different ways in different versions of
Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To add to what grammatim has said, you can copy the page content and pate
into another doc provided you don't include a section break or the last
paragraph mark in the document; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/PasteWithoutSectionInfo.htm

 

[kj]

I found a way around having to change margin settings and it seems to work
every time.

The trick is that you HAVE to actually be in the header or footer field for
it to work. Turn on Show/Hide so you see paragraph marks and go into the
header field or footer field.

If there is text to delete, highlight it, delete it then click on the Close
Header/Footer button in the Header/Footer Design Tab. The last paragraph mark
in the header should become the first paragraph mark in the body AT the top
of the page. If you DON'T open the header area and just hit the delete
header key, the last paragraph mark still holds the space for a new
nonexistent header.

If just the paragraph mark is there, highlight it and click the close header
button, you may have to do this a few times to get it to disappear, but it
will happen. Again, if you just hit Delete, it won't work so make sure to
use the Close Header/Footer button.

KJ

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is good as far as it goes, but some of it is nonsense. Obviously, you
can't delete a header or footer unless you're in the header/footer
pane/area. But the last paragraph mark in the header doesn't "become the
first paragraph mark in the body at the top of the page," though you may
have this impression if you have white space hidden.