WD: Header or Footer Text Overlaps Page Number
Article ID: 106518
Article Last Modified on 1/18/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q106518
SYMPTOMS
If you insert a page number in your header or footer using the Page
Number command on the Insert menu, text in your header or footer
overwrites the page number instead of wrapping around it. This happens
even though you select the Around option under Text Wrapping in the
Format Frame dialog box.
This problem occurs only if the page number is framed. It does not
occur if the page number is unframed or if the framed page number is
located in the body text of your document.
CAUSE
When you use the Page Number command on the Insert menu to add a page
number to your document, Word places the page number in a frame. By
design, frames behave differently in a header or footer than in the
body text of your document. Specifically, in a header or footer,
frames behave like text boxes, which means text overwrites them.
However, if you move the framed page number into the body of your
document, text wraps around the page number instead of overwriting it.
That is, a framed page number behaves like any other frame in the body of
your document.
WORKAROUND
If you do not want text to overwrite the page number in your header or
footer, follow these steps to remove the frame from it:
- Select the frame.
- On the Format menu, click Frame.
- Click Remove Frame.
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