Re: MS Word Office 365 Disappearing Header on Windows 10

[Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Happens on page 1.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:38 AM Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> 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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