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Does anyone know how to set Microsoft Word 2000 factory to original factory
settings? We are having major problems with a "phantom" header and footer
that will not go away no matter what we try!
 
I have this, and it did not work. I am looking for a way to keep my header
and footer perforated boxes from taking up space even though I am not
utilizing them. There is no text in the header or footer box.

Now, when I open a new document and I view header and footer the perforated
boxes appear and say "header" and "footer" at the top and are about 1 inch in
size. Then once I type and save my document and then view header and footer,
the boxes are about 3 inches in height and say "Header-Section-1". I am
using Section Break (Next Page) between pages in a document because I am
alotting for the preprinted letterhead that I will use to print my documents.
I am transcribing medical reports for a client and just use one document and
copy/paste from a document where I have my headings, etc. I cannot for the
life of me figure out why the header and footer boxes do not stay small.

For example, my first page of the document I have set for margins 1.5" top
and 1.5" bottom. Even though I have these margins set, the document at the
bottom is allowing an extra probably 3 inches to allow for this mammoth
footer, yet I have no text and have not formatted the footer. I have used
the Section Break (Next Page) for years so that for my second page, since
that is on plain white, I can change the margin to fit more on the page. I
can highlight my text on the second page and change the margin to 1" top and
1" bottom.

In one particular instance, I have documents that have all of my text, and I
have used F9 to create stop points, and then utilize F11 to manuever through
the document to type the information needed for that particular document.
These I have already with the Section Break (Next Page), and have worked
great up until now.

I have also noticed, in case this helps, if I go into a previous document
that was okay from say a month ago, when I go to view the header/footer,
there is nothing in there, but they are 3" (not the typical 1"), and then
when I try to close that document, Word asks if I would like to save my
changes. Well, I feel I haven't made any changes, but just basically viewed
the header/footer.

Sorry so long... Thanks in advance.

Please help..... Thank you so much......
 
Well, to begin with, you don't need the section break; you can have a
different-sized header on the first page without doing that (see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm for details), but the most
common explanation of oversized headers and footers is that you have the
vertical alignment of the page/section set to Center instead of Top (Page
Layout tab of Page Setup).

Note, however, that in Word 2002 and above, if you ever put any text in any
header in the document, even if you later delete that text, an empty
paragraph will remain, and the header and footer margins will be in effect
(regardless of the top/bottom margin settings); the only way around this is
to set the header and footer margins to 0".

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

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The default height for H/F boxes is only 1 *line*, not 1 inch. The H/F boxes
don't [typically] retain any increase to the default height nor do they take
up any space in the doc unless there is content that causes them to do so -
but that content need not be text. It could be empty paragraphs or an
extremely large font size (perhaps other possibilities as well). If your H/F
boxes are more than 1 line tall there must be some content in the H/F of
that doc, and if *new* docs are being created with 1" H and/or F boxes the
same sort of change has been made to your Normal.dot template. That's why
g-n-o guided you to the material on correcting the issue there.

Make sure you have the non-printing characters (¶ button) turned On, go to
the Header in one of the problem docs - what do you see? Several consecutive
¶s, one *big* one? Click in the box, Key Control+A, Press Delete - any
improvement? If this _does_ make a difference you'll have to do the same
thing in your Normal.dot - but I'm guessing that "somebody" did this on
purpose because they didn't know of a better way to allow space for the
pre-printed letterhead. Unfortunately that technique not only affects the
additional pages of a doc but also affects *all* docs based on Normal. It
might be useful to learn about creating & using custom templates for the
different types of docs you need to create.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 
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