 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussionsAccessExcelInfoPathOutlookPowerPointPublisherWordDirectoryUser Groups Related Topics Outlook ExpressInternet ExplorerWindowsMS Server ProductsMore Topics ... |
MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / March 2005Can't edit headers/footers
This is seriously frustrating and I'm about to pull my remaining hair out. I have a long document with a couple dozen sections or so. Each section has different first and different odd/even. As I get farther and farther down the document, clicking "View Header and Footer" jumps to a previous page, and sometimes a previous section. So let's say I'm on page 311 in section 18. The header is all screwed up. While on that page, I select "View Header and Footer" and suddenly I'm on a totally different page, back in section 17. Now, the STRANGE thing is that when I look at the page number: it says I'm on page 311. And the page 311 I *used* to be on, is now 326. Furthermore, it looks perfectly fine: just the way I defined it. When leave edit mode, I'm back on the original 311 and the header's screwed up again. It's very reminiscent of "view hidden" throwing off all the pages. Except that I'm not viewing anything hidden. I just want to fix the header! ARRRRGH. Anyone? Anything? --cd Sorry ... I forgot this is Word 2003. I've done an "Open and Repair" on the document, which found a couple things wrong, but the header/footer oddity remains. I thought ditching Word 2000 in favor of 2003 would make things better. Last time, I had to remove all automatic numbering from a document, since it would number things like 1, 2, 14, 15, 12, 3, 4, 5 .... I'd fix it, and it'd be fine for a while, then it'd be screwed up again. Plus, the errors would pop up randomly all over the place. Why do I keep sending my money to Bill? There should be a 12-step program for people like me. --cd Word's autonumbering requires special care. If that care is given, it works fine. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Sorry ... I forgot this is Word 2003. I've done an "Open and Repair" on > the document, which found a couple things wrong, but the header/footer [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > --cd > Word's autonumbering requires special care. If that care is given, it works > fine. > http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html Thanks for the link. However, my original post wasn't about numbering (that was my bad: I shouldn't have given another example replying to my own original post.) The issue is still the inability to edit headers/footers. I think I've worked around it at this point by deleting the entire section (which made a lot of this section's attributes automatically get applied to the previous section --- GRRRR). So, after fixing up the previous section, re-did the bad section from scratch (I didn't want to take the chance of cutting/pasting the bad stuff back in). It's kinda working. I changed my even header to contain the term "Character Sets". I went back about ten minutes later, and it was changed to just "C". I've changed it back again to "Character Sets" so we'll see how it goes. The root of the original problem still remains. When I "View Headers and Footers" it repaginates the document wrongly. It's almost like the header/footer metrics are changing in edit mode. Here's a more specific example. Page 16: has a bulleted list at the bottom of the page, and a page number in the footer. When I edit the footer, the last bulleted item jumps to page 17. When I'm done editing, it jumps back to page 16, where it belongs. I think this issue propogates throughout the entire document. So that when I edit page 311, I suddenly find page 311 is now page 326. FRUSTRATING. --cd Just a thought, but do you have a lot of possibly incompatible pagination rules (like too many "keep with next"s) ? If so, Word's constant fiddling with the pagination in different views could be because it is going around in circles trying to accommodate you. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP SignatureSyntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org >> Word's autonumbering requires special care. If that care is given, it > works [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > --cd > Just a thought, but do you have a lot of possibly incompatible > pagination rules (like too many "keep with next"s) ? If so, Word's > constant fiddling with the pagination in different views could be > because it is going around in circles trying to accommodate you. Hmmm... interesting thought. I don't *think* so... but it's hard to tell. I'd like to start with a fresh document, then gradually bring things in from the bad one and see where it breaks (maybe when I'm not under a tremendous time crunch). I'll double check styles and formatting to see if I see anything that might be conflicting. --cd |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.