Microsoft KB Archive/224046

= WD2000: Error Message: Word Cannot Read the Header or Footer in This Document. Save the Document in Rich Text Format, Close It, and Then Reopen It. =

Article ID: 224046

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224046





ERROR MESSAGE
If you try to print a selection from a document that contains more than one header or footer, the following error message may appear:

Word cannot read the header or footer in this document. Save the document in Rich Text Format, close it, and then reopen it.

Clicking OK several times may close the error message and print the document, or it may cause your system to stop responding (hang).

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



You are trying to print a selection that contains more than one section.
To print across sections in a document, follow these steps:


 * 1) On the File menu, click Print.
 * 2) Click to select the Pages option.
 * 3) In the Pages box, type the range of pages and sections you want to print. For example, to print from page 4 in section 2 to page 5 in section 5, type "p4s2-p5s5" (without the quotation marks).
 * 4) Click OK.

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