Header and Footer

[Charles Kenyon]

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/document_corruption.htm

Generally you copy your document, a bit at a time into a new document. You
do not want any section breaks, which includes the last pilcrow in the
document, copied into the new document. Unfortunately, this is also all of
the headers and footers.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Guest]

Thanks Charles. I will give it a try and let you know the results.

 

[Guest]

That correct Suzanne.

When you have nonprinting characters not displayed and use View | Header and
Footer to open the header pane, the H&F toolbar is not displayed?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Hi Charles,

I copied very carefully (made sure not to copy the last paragraph mark at
the document's end) information from the corrupt document into a new
document, harmonized the styles throughout, and saved it. However, I still
have the same original problem which is that the header and footer's
activation is only visible when the paragraph marks are shown. How the two
are tied together is a mystery and seems irreconcilable. Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

 

[Guest]

Charles,

As an addendum to the message sent today, I have discovered that the new
document created from the corrupt one will activate the header and footer
toolbar in the first section, but not the second one. It appears that the
corruption carried over from section two in the corrupt document into the new
one as well. Any insights on how to proceed with the de-corruption? Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you copy without any section breaks or the final paragraph mark?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Suzanne,

The PROBLEM has been solved. Before reading your reply to my post today, I
copied w/o section breaks and the final paragraph mark and pasted into a new
document again. However, this time I created a header and footer with page
numbers BEFORE pasting to the target new document. Afterward, a second
section break was inserted and page numbers were formatted to fit it (section
break 2).

If memory serves me correctly, you mentioned in an earlier reply that one
has to create a header and footer in order to be able to activate it. I
failed to heed your advice and was trying to create the header and footer ex
post copying from a corrupt source document and pasting to a new target
document. I have learned so much about styles and formatting and headers and
footers since "peeking" into the community. Learning is a lifelong process
is one is open to it. I have been using word for a few years and never
understood the difference between style formatting versus direct formatting,
not to mentioned the simple task of creating a header and footer BEFORE
composing a new document that includes section breaks. That has all changed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you and Charles for all the assistance with this
seemingly insurmountable issue. Keep up the good work!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad you finally got it sorted. Although creating the header and footer may
have been the trick, it's also possible that just adding some content did
it. I do know that if you use Insert | File to insert a document into a
completely blank document, it will take on the formatting of the inserted
file, in effect including the final paragraph mark (which I consider
perverse). If you press Enter a couple of times before inserting the file,
then it doesn't bring its section formatting with it. Adding a header may
have accomplished the same thing.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Stefan Blom]

For more on this, see:

How is it possible to copy an entire document into another document
without bringing across the header and footer?
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/PasteWithoutSectionInfo.htm

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Glad you finally got it sorted. Although creating the header and footer may
have been the trick, it's also possible that just adding some content did
it. I do know that if you use Insert | File to insert a document into a
completely blank document, it will take on the formatting of the inserted
file, in effect including the final paragraph mark (which I consider
perverse). If you press Enter a couple of times before inserting the file,
then it doesn't bring its section formatting with it. Adding a header may
have accomplished the same thing.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Suzanne,

The PROBLEM has been solved. Before reading your reply to my post

today,

I
copied w/o section breaks and the final paragraph mark and pasted

into a
new

document again. However, this time I created a header and footer

with

page
numbers BEFORE pasting to the target new document. Afterward, a second
section break was inserted and page numbers were formatted to fit

it

(section
break 2).

If memory serves me correctly, you mentioned in an earlier reply that one
has to create a header and footer in order to be able to activate it. I
failed to heed your advice and was trying to create the header and

footer

ex
post copying from a corrupt source document and pasting to a new target
document. I have learned so much about styles and formatting and

headers

and
footers since "peeking" into the community. Learning is a

lifelong

process
is one is open to it. I have been using word for a few years and never
understood the difference between style formatting versus direct formatting,
not to mentioned the simple task of creating a header and footer BEFORE
composing a new document that includes section breaks. That has

all

changed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you and Charles for all the assistance

with

this
seemingly insurmountable issue. Keep up the good work!

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