Problem Inserting Headers and Footers

Hi All,

I have a problem with a large word doc in Word 2003. There are no section
breaks in the document as I have deleted them all. The document has a title
page, contents page and then the actual document.

When I select View > Header and Footer - nothing happens - it is as though
the headers and footers have somehow been deleted from my document (or
something).

A couple of revisions earlier I had them - I can't find any reason why or
where they have gone.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks

Andy

Cindy
Tue Dec 06 07:37:29 CST 2005

Hi Andibevan,

If you had section breaks, the document structure could be damaged. Try
copying everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark into a new document and see
if that helps.

> I have a problem with a large word doc in Word 2003. There are no section
> breaks in the document as I have deleted them all. The document has a title
> page, contents page and then the actual document.
>
> When I select View > Header and Footer - nothing happens - it is as though
> the headers and footers have somehow been deleted from my document (or
> something).
>
> A couple of revisions earlier I had them - I can't find any reason why or
> where they have gone.
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Stefan
Tue Dec 06 07:37:35 CST 2005

Did you enable "Different first page" and/or "Different odd and even"
on the Layout tab of File>Page Setup? If so, you have more headers and
footers (up to three headers and three footers), which could explain
why some seem to have disappeared. For more, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm.

If headers and footers are actually gone (you can't see the
header/footer area, not even if you choose View>Headers and Footers),
I suspect that the document is corrupt. Try to recreate it using the
procedures at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Andibevan" wrote in message
news:uCPqp0l%23FHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with a large word doc in Word 2003. There are no
section
> breaks in the document as I have deleted them all. The document has
a title
> page, contents page and then the actual document.
>
> When I select View > Header and Footer - nothing happens - it is as
though
> the headers and footers have somehow been deleted from my document
(or
> something).
>
> A couple of revisions earlier I had them - I can't find any reason
why or
> where they have gone.
>
> Any help would be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>

Andibevan
Wed Dec 07 05:40:13 CST 2005

Thanks both - It did appear that the document was corrupted. The large
amount of track changes probably didn't help the situation.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message
news:VA.0000b42a.00908c74@speedy...
> Hi Andibevan,
>
> If you had section breaks, the document structure could be damaged. Try
> copying everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark into a new document and
see
> if that helps.
>
> > I have a problem with a large word doc in Word 2003. There are no
section
> > breaks in the document as I have deleted them all. The document has a
title
> > page, contents page and then the actual document.
> >
> > When I select View > Header and Footer - nothing happens - it is as
though
> > the headers and footers have somehow been deleted from my document (or
> > something).
> >
> > A couple of revisions earlier I had them - I can't find any reason why
or
> > where they have gone.
> >
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
> reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
>