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Description of the January 2010 update for Office Word

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how-to articles - Headers and Footers

how-to articles - Headers and Footers

How to add the file name and path to the header or footer in Word
Describes how to add the name of your file and the path of your document to the header or the footer of a Word document.
How to protect the text that is in the header and the footer of a Word document from changes
Describes how to protect the text that is in the header and the footer of a Word document from changes.
General information about headers and footers in Word
This article addresses what headers and footers are, how they affect margin settings, how to position them, how to create them, and what different types of headers and footers exist. What Are Headers and Footers? A header or footer is text or...

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Download details - Headers and Footers

Download details - Headers and Footers

Table appears truncated when you print a document that contains a table column with rotated text in Word 2003
Describes a problem when you print a document that contains rotated text in a table column in Word 2003, and the text and borders that are contained in the header or the footer of the document may be truncated, or cutoff.
Description of the Word 2003 hotfix package: March 22, 2004
Describes the issues that are fixed in the Word 2003 hotfix package that is dated March 22, 2004.
Description of the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 12, 2007
Describes the Word 2003 issues that are fixed in the Word 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package that is dated February 12, 2007.

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Troubleshooting - Headers and Footers

Troubleshooting - Headers and Footers

The cursor blinks abnormally, or a table in the header or in the footer of a Word document flickers or continuously resizes
Describes an issue that may occur when a Word document has different page orientations, different margin sizes, or a table in the header or in the footer. Provides a workaround.
A section that is placed in a header, footer, text box, or diagram may cause problems in an Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document
When you have text in an assigned section of a Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals document that is contained in a header, footer, text box, or diagram, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms: The section name may...
Watermark and WordArt shading appears dithered on Terminal Server-based instance of Word
When you create a watermark on a Microsoft Office Word document, or insert WordArt into the header or footer of a Word document, the shaded portion of the watermark or the WordArt may appear dithered instead of shaded. Or, portions of the watermark or...

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