Footer duplicated when copying from another Word document

[Carolyn]

When I copy and paste paragraphs from one Word document into another using
Word 2007, the footer appears twice. If I click on the footer, the extra
footer disappears. I don't want the extra footer, so I'm glad to be able to
make it go away, but does anyone know why I get a double footer in the first
place? Thanks.

-- Carolyn

 

[gr8auntieokie]

Is it possible that the problem is caused by a slow screen-refresh speed on
your computer? I sometimes notice something like that happening on my
computer, but if I scroll the screen up-and-down or press the F5 key, the
screen refreshes itself and the second footer (or false paragraph border, or
whatever) disappears.

Cyndie Browning
GableGotwals
Tulsa, OK

 

[Carolyn]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried scrolling up and down, but it did not get
rid of the
extra footer. When I press F5, I get a "Find and Replace" window. Is there
another way to force Word 2007 to refresh the screen?

-- Carolyn

 

[gr8auntieokie]

You're right: when I'm in Word, F5 gives me the Find and Replace window, too.

I guess the only other thing I'd try would be to save and close the
document, close Word, then reopen Word and see if the double footer is gone.

What do your IT people say about it??

By the way, you wrote: "When I copy and paste paragraphs from one Word
document into another using Word 2007...." Have you tried using Paste
Special/Unformatted Text instead of straight Paste?? Maybe some part of the
formatting of the other document is causing the footer to duplicate itself.
t's not the strangest thing I ever heard of; I tell my people to ALWAYS use
Paste Special/Unformatted Text when they're pasting text from one document to
another, just to make sure they don't bring any goblins from the other
document into this one.

Cyndie Browning
GableGotwals
Tulsa, OK

 

[Carolyn]

Thank you very much for the suggestions. Our IT people don't know why this is
happening. I'll try using Unformatted Text from Paste Special options.

-- Carolyn