Header Footer Pane

[Craig]

I recently did a search (ctrl F) to find a word in a document and a new
panel appeared at the bottom of the screen showing the Footer. (of course
the word I was searching for was in the footer section)

I have never seen this panel before. How can you get it to appear without
doing a Find

Craig

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

View | Header and Footer?

 

[Craig Ferrier]

If you try the following yourself you may understand the question better.

Create a new document and place the word Test in the footer of the page.
Close the header/footer toolbar and click CTRL F or toolbar find and search
on the word "test"

A new window pane opens below the document.

Now I will ask the question again. Can you make this pane appear without
doing a Find?

Thanks
Craig

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Um, okay, I do see it now. Possibly you could invoke it with VBA, but I
don't know any way beyond that. Why do you want to?

 

[Stefan Blom]

The panes don't seem to update automatically as you move between
sections, which make them rather useless. Anyway, here's code to
display them:

To display the current header in a pane, use the following syntax:

Sub DisplayCurrentHeader
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneCurrentPageHeader
End Sub

And to display the current footer:

Sub DisplayCurrentFooter
ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneCurrentPageFooter
End Sub

For help on using macros, see http://gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

For more on the SplitSpecial property, see Word VBA Help.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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