[comp.windows.ms] Want to delete header paragraph in WinWord

strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) (02/24/91)

(A preliminary remark: I'm using the German version of Winword,
so I have to translate the names of some Winword features back
into English, which may not give the actual name of the feature
in the US version of WinWord).

It is possible to add header and footer paragraphs to an WinWord
document. I have found no way to *delete* them.

Of course, it is possible to *empty* the paragraph, but the
paragraph mark stays and is visible in the sequential (non page)
view. Selecting the paragraph and hitting the delete key (or using
the menu entry) has no effect.

The problem is that this empty paragraph needs space. Normally, this
is no problem, because the header and footer paragraph is located
in the top and bottom border, so an empty header paragraph is invisible.

But if a document has to fill the whole page, so that there is no
top or bottom border, the accidental creation of a header paragraph
creates a unwanted and undeletable gap on the page. One has to
cut and paste the whole document into a fresh one in order to 
remove the unwanted paragraph. Any ideas?

Wolfgang Strobl
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