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Keith - 14 Apr 2005 22:37 GMT

We have documents created in Word 2000 with headers & footers. When the
documents are opened in Word 2002, the headers & footers are gone. I've
looked at the previous posts about white space, and page layout view, etc.
but I haven't seen anything like this. It's as if they no longer exist, but I
know they are still there because I can save the document in 2002, and go
back into it from 2000 and they will show up again.

Has anyone run into this, and if so, how do you fix it? I'm thinking it's a
switch set wrong somewhere, but where?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 14 Apr 2005 23:53 GMT

The fact that this is happening only in Word 2002, where the "Show/Hide
white space" feature was introduced, suggests that that is in fact the
issue. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/WhiteSpace.htm

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> We have documents created in Word 2000 with headers & footers. When the
> documents are opened in Word 2002, the headers & footers are gone. I've
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> Has anyone run into this, and if so, how do you fix it? I'm thinking it's a
> switch set wrong somewhere, but where?

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Keith - 15 Apr 2005 00:38 GMT

Yup, already been there, done that. No go.

I'm not sure what is going on...

> The fact that this is happening only in Word 2002, where the "Show/Hide
> white space" feature was introduced, suggests that that is in fact the
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> a
> > switch set wrong somewhere, but where?

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