Re: MS Word Office 365 Disappearing Header on Windows 10

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Then I suspect you've somehow added a new section and that the header is
not linked to previous.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:32 AM Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Yes.
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:30 AM Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Does it come back when you click into the body of the document?
> >
> > Is it possible that instead of simply editing a header, you've
> accidentally added a new section and told Word to use a new header for that
> section?
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:10 AM Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm baffled. Maybe someone here knows how to get around this behavior.
> >>
> >> A 20 page Word .docx file has a nice header in it with things like the
> >> company name, the title of the doc, page number field, version number,
> >> etc. This header is perhaps 1.25 inches (height) of content below
> >> maybe 0.25" of blank space to get into the print area.
> >>
> >> I work with docs like this one all the time, and when doing something
> >> to one, I need to increment the version number and maybe change some
> >> other formatted text content item. So, I double-click anywhere in the
> >> header, and that gets me into the header. Usually, I can simply edit
> >> whatever I want in there in the exact same way that I would edit
> >> things in the body of the document. However, when I double-click into
> >> this header, ALL of the visible content vanishes. I mean it goes away
> >> as though it had never been there.
> >>
> >> A colleague and I are scratching our heads over this. Google has left
> >> us unsatisfied.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Bob
>


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Lin Sims
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