I am working on a word document that is over 290 pages long. 4 or 5 random
headers in the document just recently oversized themselves to take up the
entire page, giving me random extra pages when I print and random page breaks
in the middle of words and paragraphs. when i try and adjust the header from
the rulers it adjusts them all but to the size of the full page and not an
adjusted size. i have read through the other suggestions for this, and tried
a different things, and nothing seems to be working. This is driving quite a
few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.
An apparent oversized header is often a sign of the vertical alignment
(Layout tab of Page Setup) being set to Center instead of Top. If you have
just a bit of text on the page, this may result from other (unrelated)
causes such as having too many paragraphs formatted as "Keep with next."

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> I am working on a word document that is over 290 pages long. 4 or 5 random
> headers in the document just recently oversized themselves to take up the
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> a different things, and nothing seems to be working. This is driving quite a
> few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.
heidi - 05 Apr 2007 00:26 GMT
Everything is set to top, and I have no room for text as the header is taking
up the entire page, cutting into a few previous paragraphs or sentances. Any
other suggestions would be great.
> An apparent oversized header is often a sign of the vertical alignment
> (Layout tab of Page Setup) being set to Center instead of Top. If you have
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> quite a
> > few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.
Suzanne S. Barnhill - 05 Apr 2007 02:38 GMT
Do you have nonprinting characters (and text boundaries) displayed? Are
there empty paragraphs or any sort of text box in the header?

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> Everything is set to top, and I have no room for text as the header is taking
> up the entire page, cutting into a few previous paragraphs or sentances. Any
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> > quite a
> > > few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.
heidi - 05 Apr 2007 18:26 GMT
Yes, to nonprinting characters being displayed, no empty text in the header,
the header is entirely empty.
> Do you have nonprinting characters (and text boundaries) displayed? Are
> there empty paragraphs or any sort of text box in the header?
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> > > quite a
> > > > few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.
Suzanne S. Barnhill - 05 Apr 2007 21:00 GMT
If you can carve out small sample of the misbehaving bits of the document,
send it along to me at my email and I'll take a look.

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> Yes, to nonprinting characters being displayed, no empty text in the header,
> the header is entirely empty.
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> > > > quite a
> > > > > few of us crazy, so any help is appreciated.