Funky word problem

[Geoff Hart]

Tammy Van Boening wonders: <<I have a Word document that I have  
divided into sections using the appropriate Section Break. The  
section that occurs BEFORE the break is standard portrait pages with  
"free text" - just plain old BodyText (the style) used. The section  
that occurs AFTER the break is a landscape page and it contains a  
link to an Excel document. Because this page is a landscape page, I  
want to adjust the header and the footer to go across the entire  
page... I click in the section where I want to make the change to the  
Header/Footer, click View > Header/Footer and get the Header/Footer  
toolbar. I click on the Link to Previous icon to break the connection  
between the header and footer in the current section and in the  
previous section and try to adjust the width of the table cells and  
the document goes bonkers! It starts flashing - darn near like a  
strobe light effect, my cursor appears/disappears, the table width  
adjusts to the new width, then resets itself to the old width - looks  
like a pinball machine in an arcade for all of the damned flashing/ 
readjusting of the table width that's going on.>>

Bet you a virtual donut you've discovered a problem with embedding  
objects in Word. (There are others.) Best bet is probably to unembed  
the spreadsheet, export it to Word as a Word table, and then try  
fixing the headings. (Embedded objects don't work nearly as well as  
they're supposed to.) Unfortunately, you then need to set up a  
process for ensuring that changes to the spreadsheet are copied into  
the Word document, but them's the (section) breaks.


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