Footer Disappears

[Sopman]

In a Word document I'm unable to view the footer. It's just not their. I do have Print Layout selected. If I go to Print Preview it appears. Also, the footer will print.

I have win2000 and Word 2000.

Can someone help??

Sopman

 

[xlhelp]

Your document could be corrupt. A document corruption first menifests itself in the Header and the Footer.

Try this:

Go to the very end of the document. Hit the delete key, and keep it pressed for a few seconds. Release. Hit the backspace key to delete the very last character of the document (I do this to be sure) and re-type it.

Save the document. See if the Footer reappears.

If that doesn't work:

Delete all section breaks, then select all but the last
paragraph mark and Copy/Paste into a new document.

And if you are still having problems:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

HTH

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[Sopman]

I tried what you said. It didn't work.

When I move a file that is saved on my hard drive and put them into the (R)drive we share in the office, and call it up on another machine in the office - all is OK, you can view the footer .....so it is definitely something on my machine.

If the file was corrupt wouldn't other computers have the same problems??

Sopman

 

[xlhelp]

Make sure the Margins and footer settings aren't conflicting with each other. Is your default printer different from other systems?

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[Sopman]

All of the computers are printing to the same printer and the margins are the same.

I deleted the Normal.dot file and replaced it with one from other machine. This didn't seem to work. I guess maybe I should reload Office, unless you have some other suggestions. I really don't want to reload...

Sopman