Word 2007 - Can't Unlink Header

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Victoria@DIG

I have a document with five pages. At the end of page two is a next-page
section break.

At the top of page one I inserted a header. Then I went to page three (the
first page of section two). I opened the header, clicked on "Link to
Previous" and the "Same as Previous" went away. (as expected)

Next, I deleted the text in the header on page three and changed it. I
close the header. Expected results: Pages one and two have Header A and
Pages three through five should have Header B. Actual results: The same
header through out.

I even tried going back and changing the header in section one back to what
it was supposed to be and it then changes through out.

Any suggestions?
 
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Stefan Blom

Note that each section can have up to three different headers (and footers),
which happens if "Different odd and even" and "Different first page" are
both checked in the Page Setup dialog box. Each type of header (footer) must
be unlinked separately from its neighbor in the preceding section.

Also note that while "Different odd and even" is a setting for the document,
"Different first page" can be checked or cleared individually for each
section, which might contribute further to any confusion.

For more on headers and footers in Word, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm.
 
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Victoria@DIG

Stefan:

Thanks for the notes below. However, my problem is that although I am
turning off "Linked to Previous" they are staying linked. When I make
changes to either sections headers it changes it for the entire document.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

Do you actually have section breaks? Do the section numbers on the status
bar change?
 
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Victoria@DIG

I do. The status bar states Section 1 and Section 2. I double checked that
when viewing the headers they also say Header - Section 1 and Header -
Section 2.

I just tried creating a new document to see if my original is corrupt, but
I'm running into the same issue.
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

If you want to send me a copy of the document, I will take a look at it to
see if I can tell what is happening. Remove the uppercase letters from my
email address.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

And you're definitely clicking Link to Previous to turn it OFF in Section 2?
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

The issue was the that header text was entered into a Content Control.

They probably should not be able to be inserted into the Header and Footer
in the same way that it was not possible to insert formfields into the
Header and Footer. I have not thought too much about it however.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I knew there was some reason I didn't like content controls in the header.
Beth Melton told me that the content controls in most of the stock headers
are like MacroButton NoMacro fields (overwritten when you type in them), but
that's obviously not true of all. I'm not up to speed enough on Word 2007,
much less CC, to have thought of this as an issue, though.
 
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Victoria@DIG

Thank you both for trying to help me. I'm still playing with some of these
new built-in features and I've guess we've all learned they have their good
sides and their bad sides.
 
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