Problem with header/footers in word 2003

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After we upgraded to word 2003 most of our documents opens with the wrong
header/footer. They work just fine in word 2000. Anyone got any ideas about
whats wrong?
 
The header contains a table with various document info and a company logo,
the footer has some autotext in it like dates and pagenumbers.
The header/footer should be different for all the documents but they all
look the same now..

I found an old document that i guess is the base of all our documents. I
found it in a folder called templates. This document is empty except for the
header and footer which contains exactly the same that shows up in all our
documents now.

I tried to change the contents of this document to see if that changed
anything in the others, but it didn't. It looks like Word 2003 opens all the
documents with the first ever version of the header/footers..

Hope it cleared this up abit, english is not my first language so its kinda
hard to explain all this. :o)

Beth Melton skrev:
 
Hi Kenneth,

The only time the template header/footer information is used is when a
new document is created. Once you use File/New and create the document
then content changes to the template will not update content on
documents based on the template.

I hate to ask you to be more specific but I'm still not following what
changed exactly. For example did some of the document information
change? Did the logo change? If so can you provide an example of what
the information should be and what is currently displayed? How should
they be different?

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I'll try again.. :)
Once upon a time in a kingdom far, far away someone made a document. it was
a nice looking document with his company logo on the right side of the
header, the name of the document in the middle, let's say it was called "How
to bake bread", and some other info on the left side of the header, like
filename and such.

Now everyone thought it was such a nice document that they all wanted to use
it as a template for their own ones, so they took it, changed the contents of
it and saved it as their own. One day they all upgraded their software to
Office 2003 and all hell broke loose. Every document they opened suddenly had
the same header/footer as the original document.

Lets take one document as an example. One of the employees took that first
ever document and changed it like this: "Elevator user manual" in the header
instead of "How to make bread", changed the other file info on the left side
of the header and kept the company logo on the right then saved it under a
new filename.
And now years later, when the upgrade was installed the header didn't say
"Elevator user manual" anymore, it said "How to make bread". The rest of the
document was ok, just the header/footer reverted back to that of the
original..

End of story..

We now have several thousand documents made like that. opened the previous
one, changed the contets and saved it under a new filename. Every single one
of them now shows the original header from that first document. if i open
these in Word 2000 they are ok, but in 2003 the header/footer is changed
back..

Hope this clears it up.

Kenneth.

Beth Melton skrev:
 
If no one can help with this i'm forced to remove office 2003 from all 50
computers here and install 2000 again. Thats not something i want to do when
i just spent a shitload of cash on new software.. This is really beginning to
bug me.. I've been searching the net for about two weeks now, read almost
every forums out there, and no result... HELP!!

Kenneth skrev:
 
Since no one else has this problem in Word 2003, it's a bit difficult to
troubleshoot. It sounds very much as if you've got IncludeText fields in
those headers that are updating automatically.

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