why is the text overwriting itself in a header or footer?

[Guest]

One of my students was entering text into a header and the letters kept
overwriting themselves in the same place, ie one on top of the other - does
anyone know why this might have happened and what can we do to prevent it?

 

[Graham Mayor]

According to contributor Bob Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to
have Word misreading temporary files related to the printer currently in
use. You can usually 'unscramble' the display from File=>Print and switch
to the printer properties or to another printer then your normal one, or
close Word and delete all files found on Start=>Search and looking for
~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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