Microsoft KB Archive/41563

Can’t Delete Header/Footer in Multisection Document

PSS ID Number: Q41563 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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Page 121 in the Word 4.0 “Reference to Microsoft Word” manual incorrectly states that to delete a header or footer, you must delete all the header or footer text (as you do in Word 3.x and 5.0). This is true only for the first section of a document (or for all of a single-section document).

If you want to have an empty header or footer in a section following another section with a defined header or footer, follow these steps instead:


 * 1) Choose Open Header or Open Footer for the header or footer you want to delete. (Make sure your insertion point is in the appropriate section.)
 * 2) Select all of the text in the window and press the SPACEBAR once to replace the text with a single space.

If you delete the text in a header or footer for a section other than the first, the text from the header or footer in the previous section will appear because you cannot specify “Same As Previous” in the header or footer while you are in Page View in Word version 4.0.

To repeat the previous header or footer, select all of the header or footer text and delete it; the header or footer text from the previous section will replace the header or footer text. The replacement will not be apparent until you close the header/footer window and reopen it, or, in the case of Page View, until you scroll down beneath the header (or above the footer) and then scroll back.

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