Why is the header/footer sometimes missing?

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Hi,

I have Word 2003.

I have two documents that I've inserted the same header/footer. On one, I
can't see either the header/footer at all. But when I look at print preview,
I see the header/footer perfectly (and it prints that way). The
header/footer is the same on each page.

But on another document, I can see it just fine using the Normal view.

Any idea what causes this change? It's driving me crazy.

Thanks.
 
The header and footer are never visible in Normal view, only in Print Layout
view (and sometimes not then; see
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/WhiteSpace.htm).

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Thanks for the reply and link.

Unfortunately, I still have a problem.

On the document that's NOT showing either the header/footer, when I go to
"Tools, Options" the option that reads, "White space between pages (Print
View only)" is actually MUTED so I can't select/deselect it.

I assume there's something odd with this document. Can anybody help? Thanks.
 
Chances are, you are in _normal_ view rather than print view. White space as
well as headers/footers won't show up there! Normal view should probably be
called _draft_ or _fast_ view because there's nothing particularly normal
about it. It is probably the original (Word 2.0) view.
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Chances are, you are in _normal_ view rather than print view. White space as
well as headers/footers won't show up there! Normal view should probably be
called _draft_ or _fast_ view because there's nothing particularly normal
about it. It is probably the original (Word 2.0) view.
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It is what is "normal" to Word. Very representative of how Word "thinks."
 
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