Evan,
To work more effectively within headers and footers, click Header and Footer
on the View menu; the Header and Footer toolbar is displayed; click the
Show/Hide Document Text button (it looks like one piece of paper on top of
another); everything in the main text layer and the associated portion of
the drawing layer will disappear. You can now focus on the contents of the
header by itself.
The header area is not an alternate drawing layer; you can think of it as a
quasi-second text layer -- the header/footer text layer (as opposed to the
main text layer). It just happens that the content of the header area
including the associated portion of the drawing layer is dimmed when you're
working in print layout view and disappears in normal view and outline view
just as graphics in a floating wrapping style also disappear in both those
views.
Additional information:
Layers:
Although it is customary to refer to 2 layers in a Word document (a text
layer and a drawing layer), I find it is far easier to think of 6 layers
Layers (1)and (2)
(1) Main text layer and (2) header/footer text layer -- generally, these
layers contain the text of your document and the header/footer text,
respectively; you can also insert graphics with In line with text wrapping
style (Inline graphics -- blacking sizing handles), which act as a single,
large character and frames (containers for text that text wraps around) in
either of these text layers; graphics with a floating wrapping style
(floating graphics -- white sizing handles) cannot exist within these text
layers
Layers (3) and (4)
(3) Front drawing layer in front of the main text layer and (4) back drawing
layer behind the main text layer of the document; you can only place
graphics with a floating wrapping style in these drawing layers; if a
graphic is in front of or behind the main text layer, it appears in front of
or behind, respectively, the main text; you can also wrap text around
floating graphics
Layers (5) and (6)
(5) Front drawing layer in front of the header/footer text layer and (6)
back drawing layer behind the header/footer text layer; you can only place
graphics with a floating text wrapping style in these drawing layers; if a
graphic with a floating wrapping style is in front of or behind the
header/footer text layer, it appears in front of or behind, respectively,
the header/footer text
Wrapping:
Wrapping is an attribute of a floating graphic that dictates how the graphic
affects the main text layer or the header/footer text layer if it is
inserted in a header or footer; text cannot wrap around inline graphic
(unless you place them in a frame) nor can an inline graphic be positioned
in front of or behind a text layer
To control wrapping (wrapping style):
Bring up the Format AutoShape dialog box, the Format Text Box dialog box or
the Format Picture dialog box by double-clicking the graphic
Click the Layout tab at the top of the Format... dialog box
Somewhat confusingly, In line with text is included as a wrapping style;
inline graphics have no wrapping style and reside in the main text layer
rather than in a drawing layer
By default and adding to the confusion, text wrapping for floating graphics
is set to “in front of text,” which actually turns off text wrapping as does
“behind text”
The only text wrapping occurs if the “square” or “tight” wrapping styles are
selected or in the advanced options, the “through” or “top and bottom”
wrapping styles
Jon
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