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Word 2000 decided that my 13 page form would look better with a black line
stretching across the bottom of each page below the footer. My "form" has no
actual form fields in it. It is just a very long set of tables. When it first
appeared, the line was greyed out and I could not select it, so I deduced
that it was part of the footer itself. When I opened the footer the line
turned black (as expected) but I still could not select it. When I closed the
footer, the line stayed black (not as expected). I tried adjusting the
margins, inserting pages, adding and deleting rows to the tables, deleting
the footer entirely... nothing worked. I finally had to copy each page out of
the document and paste them one at a time into a new one. That does not seem
like a very elegant solution and it won't help me the next time Word
(inevitably) decides to change my document like this. It has also happened to
a coworker, so I have reason to believe it will happen again.
Did I do this to myself by unintentionally pressing some weird set of keys?
Is this just a bug in the program - every 1,000 documents it adds a line to
the bottom? Should I be looking for conflicts with other programs? I would
greatly appreciate any help understanding both what happened and what to do
about it! Thank you!!
stretching across the bottom of each page below the footer. My "form" has no
actual form fields in it. It is just a very long set of tables. When it first
appeared, the line was greyed out and I could not select it, so I deduced
that it was part of the footer itself. When I opened the footer the line
turned black (as expected) but I still could not select it. When I closed the
footer, the line stayed black (not as expected). I tried adjusting the
margins, inserting pages, adding and deleting rows to the tables, deleting
the footer entirely... nothing worked. I finally had to copy each page out of
the document and paste them one at a time into a new one. That does not seem
like a very elegant solution and it won't help me the next time Word
(inevitably) decides to change my document like this. It has also happened to
a coworker, so I have reason to believe it will happen again.
Did I do this to myself by unintentionally pressing some weird set of keys?
Is this just a bug in the program - every 1,000 documents it adds a line to
the bottom? Should I be looking for conflicts with other programs? I would
greatly appreciate any help understanding both what happened and what to do
about it! Thank you!!