Section paginations not working

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We have a document broken into Sections with page breaks and continuous
section breaks with no obviosu reason. The document came from outside the
firm. My attorney had to append it into oneof her own documents. We used a
Section Break (Next Page) of course. Well, this document has no area for
Footers on many pages. I have naver seen this. The settings are there for
"Same as previous" etc, but there is no place holder for the Footer in View>
Header/Footer and we can't right click to get one either. We have managed to
copy and paste the footer of a previous page into the HEADER of the next by
mistake.

Has anyone seen this and what on earth is the fix? And why wont the sections
properly copy the header/footers when the "Same as Previous" button is
turned on??

Thank you,
-Monica

PS: Please CC: (e-mail address removed) on all responses as I may not be in the office
tomorrow and she needs this help STAT! Thanx!!!
 
This is usually an indication that the document is corrupt. Since you don't
see any reason for the section breaks, a first step might be to delete them
and see if that solves the problem. But see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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

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I have run into instances like this when the document was originally done in
WordPerfect and copied and pasted into Word (or saved in Word). Was it
originally in WordPerfect? Regardless, Suzanne's advice should be heeded by
deleting them, or possibly copy the text, open a new document, select
"Edit", "Paste special", then select "Unformatted text". You might need to
do a little formatting to get it right, but at least all of the "bogus"
formatting codes will be gone.

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
 
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