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Tom Smith
Word 2003 under Win XP.
I created a document by pasting together two separate documents, one of
which had a footer and also a watermark. I then began to add new sections
using Insert|Break|Next Page. When I went back to check on the appearance of
the document, I discovered three goofy things:
1. A header box had miraculously expanded to fill half of one page, pushing
the text down.
2. I was unable to clean up the footers (i.e. get one footer to repeat in
subsequent sections, as would normally be expected).
3. I was unable to delete the original watermark.
I solved my production problem by deleting all section breaks, copying all
of the document except the final para mark to a new document, and
reformatting. Thus far all seems fine.
But I was baffled by the behavior of this (admittedly kludged) document. I
believe I'm right in thinking that watermarks are somehow connected to
headers/footers. But it isn't clear to me exactly how. Could one of you
folks point me to something I can read/study that would help? And do you
have any guesses about why some of the behaviors I noted above took place?
Behaviors? Yikes. It sounds like I'm talking about a human subject here.
But thanks for any help. Tom
I created a document by pasting together two separate documents, one of
which had a footer and also a watermark. I then began to add new sections
using Insert|Break|Next Page. When I went back to check on the appearance of
the document, I discovered three goofy things:
1. A header box had miraculously expanded to fill half of one page, pushing
the text down.
2. I was unable to clean up the footers (i.e. get one footer to repeat in
subsequent sections, as would normally be expected).
3. I was unable to delete the original watermark.
I solved my production problem by deleting all section breaks, copying all
of the document except the final para mark to a new document, and
reformatting. Thus far all seems fine.
But I was baffled by the behavior of this (admittedly kludged) document. I
believe I'm right in thinking that watermarks are somehow connected to
headers/footers. But it isn't clear to me exactly how. Could one of you
folks point me to something I can read/study that would help? And do you
have any guesses about why some of the behaviors I noted above took place?
Behaviors? Yikes. It sounds like I'm talking about a human subject here.
But thanks for any help. Tom