converting page headers into readable text within the document

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Dean

In Word 2007 on Vista, I have a Word document in which I would like
the page headers to become part of the document text. I may convert
the document to plain text or perhaps html for ultimate use, but,
whether I leave the document as a Word doc or use it in one of those
other formats, is there a way to make the page headers become part of
the body text?

Thank you in advance.

Dean
 
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Joseph Meehan

Do you have a different page header for each page? Do you want the
same text at the top of each page? Will you be making any changes to the
body text at any time?

Could you explain in a little more detail exactly what you want?
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

Headers and footers are the way that Word presents recurring text/graphics
without needing multiple actual instances. For the headers to become part of
the body text, you would need to actually put it there within each page. You
can probably do this by using a text box on each page (without a border, if
that's how your headers appear), with square wrapping and absolute
positioning (I would use Relative to Page for both horizontal and vertical,
and then drag the box so that it occupies the same location where the header
normally resides). When you copy/paste this to a new page, it should
automatically go into the correct location.

Setting it up experimentally... it seems to work. But, you would need to
copy the textbox onto each new page.

Whether this meets your criterion of "body text" is another matter, however.
Since it would be in a text box. However, it does get it out of the header
area.
 
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Dean

Good questions. What I want is for the page number, found in the
header, to appear as body text. Since the page numbers are non-
standard, using the Browse function doesn't allow you to navigate to
them, and if I save the document as text, I'd like to be able to
search for a non-standard page number there as well. The header only
contains the page number.

Dean
 
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