[Type text] stuck in footer area!

[jamesmcd]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Power PC Hi all,

My mother is working on an important document with Word 2004, and it's fairly big at ~100 pages.

The problem, is that people have sent through their own sections from their PC versions of Word, and their sections have "[Type text]" in the footer area. We cannot find a way to remove this text, and it doesn't actually show up when we reveal the footer. It prints this on every page, so we really need to find a way to get rid of it!

Any help is greatly appreciated!
James

 

[John_McGhie_[MVP]]

That's a field stuck in the footer.

Open the footer, Command + a to select the entire footer, then delete.

Turn your Show/Hide on to reveal the paragraph marks, so you can see what
you are doing.

You may need to go back through multiple section breaks until you get into
the one that is containing the field, which may be coming all the way from
the front of the document. Remember there can be three footers in each
section: First Page, Left Page, and Right Page.

Cheers

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Power PC Hi
all,

My mother is working on an important document with Word 2004, and it's fairly
big at ~100 pages.

The problem, is that people have sent through their own sections from their PC
versions of Word, and their sections have "[Type text]" in the footer area. We
cannot find a way to remove this text, and it doesn't actually show up when we
reveal the footer. It prints this on every page, so we really need to find a
way to get rid of it!

Any help is greatly appreciated!
James

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