Deleting Header/Footer Text Does Not Delete Paragraph Mark

Last reviewed: July 30, 1997
Article ID: Q61761

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for Windows versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a, 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c

When you delete the text in the header/footer section of Word for Windows, the paragraph mark remains so that the area still displays under Page View.

Word for Windows was designed so that the paragraph mark remains and marks where the text was in the header/footer section; otherwise background repagination would remove the header if you had an empty header.

One method to remove the blank space of the header or footer isto go to Page layout view, then turn on Text Boundaries under Tool, Options, View Catagory. Click OK to return to the document. Perform this step again and the header or footer space will disappear.

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory: kbformat
Additional query words: 1.x 2.0 2.0a winword2 word6
winword 2.0a-CD 2.0b 2.0c 6.0 6.0a 6.0c
Keywords : kbformat
Version : 1.x 2.x 6.0 6.0a 6.0c
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: July 30, 1997
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