Header changes with text outside of header

[Guest]

Word can do some fierce and wonderful things! I suppose there's a reason for
it all, but this one I can't figure out. I have text in a header, right
aligned, font size 8. I closed the header and typed text at the top of the
page, right aligned, and font size 14. The header font changed to 14 as
well. If I move the text to left-aligned, the header moves to left, as well.
What gives???

Connie Martin

 

[Guest]

Guess I'll answer my own question. This was getting rather annoying because
even when I changed the body text to left aligned the header would left
align.
GRR-RR-RRR-RRRRRR! In Format/Style, I clicked on Header/Modify and removed
the check mark from "Automatically update". Why that was checked, I don't
know, but it seems to have done the trick. Connie Martin

 

[Joseph McGuire]

Here's a suggestion to try. Hope it helps.

Fonts or other formatting/attributes changing for no apparent reason to
match another part of a document is often a Styles issue. Of course, every
point in a Word document is subject to a style, even if it is a default
style like "Normal" or "Header." If somehow you are using the same style in
both places Word would assume you meant for the attributes like font size,
justification etc. to be the same; change one and the other location is
changed to match it. If the styles are not the same, check to see if they
are Based On each other or on some other style they have in common. I
usually leave the Automatically Update unchecked since I don't really know
what it means (leaving it unchecked should update the various attributes
wherever this style appears in your document anyway). Things get a bit
weird if you add the same attributes along with a style, such as Format,
Font or Format, Paragraph. Then you get these parts of Word to go to war
with each other.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The main problem was that *Normal* style was also set to update
automatically, and most other styles are based on Normal, so when you
formatted a Normal paragraph, it was updated, and Header, which is based on
it, was updated as well.

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

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