How to unformat headers and footers.

[Gary Burton]

I have Office 2002, SP3. I use OmniPage Pro v 12 to generate word documents. OmniPage thinks it's doing me a favor to place text at the top of the page into a header format and text at the bottom of the page in a footer format. Usually, this is text that does not belong in either a header or footer. Since my documents are long it is a pain to cut the text from the headers/footers, paste it into the document, and then change the formatting of the headers and footers the way I want them. The automatic formatting also interferes with graphics at the top or bottom of the page.

OmniPage offers no help on how to prevent this from happening. What I would really like to do is to set OmniPage so that it does not create headers or footers. Apparently that is impossible; but if anyone reading this knows of a way to do that, I would love to hear about it.

Lacking a way to fix the problem in OmniPage, Please tell me a way use Word to delete all header and footers, yet take the text therein and place it into the main document.

Thanks!

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Gary,

This would only be possible using a macro (VBA), but nigh on impossible for
anyone to program who doesn't use the same software and setup you have. Getting
the text out of the headers/footers is no problem. But putting it back into the
proper place in the text flow... unmanageable at such a remove.

> I have Office 2002, SP3. I use OmniPage Pro v 12 to generate word documents.
OmniPage thinks it's doing me a favor to place text at the top of the page into a
header format and text at the bottom of the page in a footer format. Usually,
this is text that does not belong in either a header or footer. Since my
documents are long it is a pain to cut the text from the headers/footers, paste
it into the document, and then change the formatting of the headers and footers
the way I want them. The automatic formatting also interferes with graphics at
the top or bottom of the page.
>
> OmniPage offers no help on how to prevent this from happening. What I
would really like to do is to set OmniPage so that it does not create headers or
footers. Apparently that is impossible; but if anyone reading this knows of a
way to do that, I would love to hear about it.
>
> Lacking a way to fix the problem in OmniPage, Please tell me a way use Word
to delete all header and footers, yet take the text therein and place it into the
main document.
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Gary Burton]

Thanks.

I think I can train OP to not format headers and footers. That should
fix it.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" > wrote in message
news:VA.0000977a.00558d4e@speedy...
> Hi Gary,
>
> This would only be possible using a macro (VBA), but nigh on impossible
for
> anyone to program who doesn't use the same software and setup you have.
Getting
> the text out of the headers/footers is no problem. But putting it back
into the
> proper place in the text flow... unmanageable at such a remove.
>
> > I have Office 2002, SP3. I use OmniPage Pro v 12 to generate word
documents.
> OmniPage thinks it's doing me a favor to place text at the top of the page
into a
> header format and text at the bottom of the page in a footer format.
Usually,
> this is text that does not belong in either a header or footer. Since my
> documents are long it is a pain to cut the text from the headers/footers,
paste
> it into the document, and then change the formatting of the headers and
footers
> the way I want them. The automatic formatting also interferes with
graphics at
> the top or bottom of the page.
> >
> > OmniPage offers no help on how to prevent this from happening. What
I
> would really like to do is to set OmniPage so that it does not create
headers or
> footers. Apparently that is impossible; but if anyone reading this knows
of a
> way to do that, I would love to hear about it.
> >
> > Lacking a way to fix the problem in OmniPage, Please tell me a way
use Word
> to delete all header and footers, yet take the text therein and place it
into the
> main document.
> >
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply
> in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
>