Re: MS Word Office 365 Disappearing Header on Windows 10

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

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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