[techcomm-discuss] Funky word problem

[Van Boening, Tammy]

I capitulate - I roll over - I play dead! I actually got it working in
one section - repeated the process (a specific order of steps) and it
works BEE-YOO-TI-FUHLLY and I am feeling pretty cocky and self-assured
(but we all Word doesn't like that and always wants to humble us
writers), so I try for the third time and KABOOM! It all goes to hell in
a hand basket. Back to the lights and sirens routine. 
 
I am done. The readers will just have to deal with midget headers and
footers on a landscape page.
 
Thanks one and all for all of the suggestions. I gave it my best, but I
surrender.
 
TVB
 
 
Tammy L. Van Boening 
Senior Technical Writer 
Fiserv Insurance Solutions 
Property and Casualty Division 
303-729-7733 
tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com 
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From: Laura Donovan [mailto:ldonovan at msn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:10 AM
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Subject: RE: [techcomm-discuss] Funky word problem



Oooh.  I want to hear the answer to this one.  I have a document that I
have to come back to from time to time, and it does that strobe thing,
too.  It is similar in that the one section is landscape, but it does
not have the link to Excel, so I don't think that's what's causing this.
Most "entertaining".  

thanks... laura




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	From: "Van Boening, Tammy" <Tammy.VanBoening at Fiserv.com>
	To:
<techcomm-discuss at stcrmc.org>,<stclwrsig-l at mailman.stc.org>,<TECHWR-L at li
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	Subject: [techcomm-discuss] Funky word problem
	Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:32:31 -0600
	
	

	No, I won't bash Word but ARGH! 

	The problem is this: 

	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. Naturally, right now, the header and footer are linked
to the previous and each contains a single row/three column table of the
needed width for the standard portrait page. So, 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. I am half expecting to hear sirens next.  

	I give - this is a pretty standard feature in Word, but the only
difference for me this time is that the section in which I am trying to
make a different header/footer has a link to an Excel spreadsheet in it
- not plain old BodyText, but why for the life of me this should make a
difference, I haven't a clue. 

	Any and all help is appreciated. 

	TIA, 

	TVB 

	Tammy L. Van Boening 
	Senior Technical Writer 
	Fiserv Insurance Solutions 
	Property and Casualty Division 
	303-729-7733 
	tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com 
	
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	Keep smiling, at least until you get your own way.