Remove header & footer from Envelope Peter K 12/3/2008 8:03:55 PM In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing letters & ending an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & footer appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail Merge > Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type 'Envelopes'. Going ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, apparently based on my normal.dotx. How can I delete these headers & footers? Any advice would be appreciated. Peter K

Re: Remove header & footer from Envelope "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 12/4/2008 6:42:25 AM You should not put a header and/or footer in the normal.dot template. Rather, create another template containing those features and use that template for the documents that you create for which you want the features. -- 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 "Peter K" <PeterK[ at ]discusions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4BED64A5-4B82-4A38-AAC4-7784E63D9CE5[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing letters & > ending > an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & footer > appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. > > Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail Merge > > Step > by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type 'Envelopes'. > Going > ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, > apparently based on my normal.dotx. > > How can I delete these headers & footers? > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Peter K

Re: Remove header & footer from Envelope Peter K 12/4/2008 11:34:06 AM Thxs for your reply. For 99.99% of all my work I do need the header. It puts path & file name in the top left in small font & today's date in the top right. No problem with envellopes, Word is smart enough to realize that envelopeds don't get headers & footers. It's only when I use that Step by Step Mail Wizard, that even though I specify 'Envelopes' inists on adding the header. After I wrote my original question, I edited normal.dotm & deleted the header & footer from it. (To be put right back in, the moment I was done with this once a year thing.)Now The file name & date no longer appear, but, an about 5/8 in. top margin is still there, putting the return address way too low. I could print the envelopes individually, bypassing the wizard, & all would be fine. But, that defeats the purpose. How can I stop the wizard from imposing that top margin or header? Again, any help would be appreciated. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: [Quoted Text] > You should not put a header and/or footer in the normal.dot template. > Rather, create another template containing those features and use that > template for the documents that you create for which you want the features. > > -- > 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 > > "Peter K" <PeterK[ at ]discusions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4BED64A5-4B82-4A38-AAC4-7784E63D9CE5[ at ]microsoft.com... > > In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing letters & > > ending > > an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & footer > > appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. > > > > Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail Merge > > > Step > > by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type 'Envelopes'. > > Going > > ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, > > apparently based on my normal.dotx. > > > > How can I delete these headers & footers? > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > Peter K > > >

Re: Remove header & footer from Envelope "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 12/4/2008 12:12:00 PM You can delete the header content but once you have created a header the paragraph mark remains taking up space. This is one of the disadvantages of having a header in the normal template. It would be better to insert the header using a macro and leave the header empty (for which purpose you will have to rename the normal template). Or simply do as Doug suggested and create a separate template with a header to use for your documents and leave the normal template alone. An alternative is to use a template to create the merge envelope document. You could start from the envelope merge template that you can download from my web site or create your own. Treat the document as a letter merge and add the fields to the Envelope Address frame. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Peter K wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thxs for your reply. > > For 99.99% of all my work I do need the header. It puts path & file > name in the top left in small font & today's date in the top right. > No problem with envellopes, Word is smart enough to realize that > envelopeds don't get headers & footers. > > It's only when I use that Step by Step Mail Wizard, that even though I > specify 'Envelopes' inists on adding the header. > > After I wrote my original question, I edited normal.dotm & deleted the > header & footer from it. (To be put right back in, the moment I was > done with this once a year thing.)Now The file name & date no longer > appear, but, an about 5/8 in. top margin is still there, putting the > return address way too low. > > I could print the envelopes individually, bypassing the wizard, & all > would be fine. But, that defeats the purpose. > > How can I stop the wizard from imposing that top margin or header? > > Again, any help would be appreciated. > > > "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > >> You should not put a header and/or footer in the normal.dot template. >> Rather, create another template containing those features and use >> that template for the documents that you create for which you want >> the features. >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> "Peter K" <PeterK[ at ]discusions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:4BED64A5-4B82-4A38-AAC4-7784E63D9CE5[ at ]microsoft.com... >>> In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing >>> letters & ending >>> an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & >>> footer appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. >>> >>> Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail >>> Merge > Step >>> by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type >>> 'Envelopes'. Going >>> ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, >>> apparently based on my normal.dotx. >>> >>> How can I delete these headers & footers? >>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>> >>> Peter K

Re: Remove header & footer from Envelope "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 12/4/2008 12:17:33 PM Further to my last. If you save your header text as an autotext entry called tHeader, the following macro will insert the header when required Sub AddHeader() Dim oSection As Section Dim oHeader As HeaderFooter Dim oRng As Range On Error GoTo ErrorHandler If Len(ActiveDocument.Path) = 0 Then ActiveDocument.Save End If For Each oSection In ActiveDocument.Sections For Each oHeader In oSection.Headers If oHeader.Exists Then Set oRng = oHeader.Range With oRng .Fields.Add oRng, wdFieldAutoText, "tHeader", False .Fields.Update End With End If Next oHeader Next oSection Exit Sub ErrorHandler: If Err.Number = 4198 Then MsgBox "Document must be saved before adding header", _ vbCritical, "Not Saved" End If End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Peter K wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thxs for your reply. > > For 99.99% of all my work I do need the header. It puts path & file > name in the top left in small font & today's date in the top right. > No problem with envellopes, Word is smart enough to realize that > envelopeds don't get headers & footers. > > It's only when I use that Step by Step Mail Wizard, that even though I > specify 'Envelopes' inists on adding the header. > > After I wrote my original question, I edited normal.dotm & deleted the > header & footer from it. (To be put right back in, the moment I was > done with this once a year thing.)Now The file name & date no longer > appear, but, an about 5/8 in. top margin is still there, putting the > return address way too low. > > I could print the envelopes individually, bypassing the wizard, & all > would be fine. But, that defeats the purpose. > > How can I stop the wizard from imposing that top margin or header? > > Again, any help would be appreciated. > > > "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > >> You should not put a header and/or footer in the normal.dot template. >> Rather, create another template containing those features and use >> that template for the documents that you create for which you want >> the features. >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> "Peter K" <PeterK[ at ]discusions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:4BED64A5-4B82-4A38-AAC4-7784E63D9CE5[ at ]microsoft.com... >>> In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing >>> letters & ending >>> an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & >>> footer appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. >>> >>> Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail >>> Merge > Step >>> by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type >>> 'Envelopes'. Going >>> ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, >>> apparently based on my normal.dotx. >>> >>> How can I delete these headers & footers? >>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. >>> >>> Peter K

Re: Remove header & footer from Envelope Peter K 12/4/2008 1:52:02 PM Thxs for your replies. Having little time before going on a trip, I'll have to do the envelopes 'manually', i.e. w/o the wizard. Once back I'll work through your advice & set up my system properly for next year. "Graham Mayor" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Further to my last. If you save your header text as an autotext entry called > tHeader, the following macro will insert the header when required > > Sub AddHeader() > Dim oSection As Section > Dim oHeader As HeaderFooter > Dim oRng As Range > On Error GoTo ErrorHandler > If Len(ActiveDocument.Path) = 0 Then > ActiveDocument.Save > End If > For Each oSection In ActiveDocument.Sections > For Each oHeader In oSection.Headers > If oHeader.Exists Then > Set oRng = oHeader.Range > With oRng > .Fields.Add oRng, wdFieldAutoText, "tHeader", False > .Fields.Update > End With > End If > Next oHeader > Next oSection > Exit Sub > ErrorHandler: > If Err.Number = 4198 Then > MsgBox "Document must be saved before adding header", _ > vbCritical, "Not Saved" > End If > End Sub > > http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm > > > -- > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Graham Mayor - Word MVP > > My web site www.gmayor.com > Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > > > > Peter K wrote: > > Thxs for your reply. > > > > For 99.99% of all my work I do need the header. It puts path & file > > name in the top left in small font & today's date in the top right. > > No problem with envellopes, Word is smart enough to realize that > > envelopeds don't get headers & footers. > > > > It's only when I use that Step by Step Mail Wizard, that even though I > > specify 'Envelopes' inists on adding the header. > > > > After I wrote my original question, I edited normal.dotm & deleted the > > header & footer from it. (To be put right back in, the moment I was > > done with this once a year thing.)Now The file name & date no longer > > appear, but, an about 5/8 in. top margin is still there, putting the > > return address way too low. > > > > I could print the envelopes individually, bypassing the wizard, & all > > would be fine. But, that defeats the purpose. > > > > How can I stop the wizard from imposing that top margin or header? > > > > Again, any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > > > >> You should not put a header and/or footer in the normal.dot template. > >> Rather, create another template containing those features and use > >> that template for the documents that you create for which you want > >> the features. > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > >> "Peter K" <PeterK[ at ]discusions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > >> news:4BED64A5-4B82-4A38-AAC4-7784E63D9CE5[ at ]microsoft.com... > >>> In Word 2007, my normal.dot includes a header. When writing > >>> letters & ending > >>> an Envelope to the document, everything works fine. The header & > >>> footer appear on all text pages, but not on the envelope. > >>> > >>> Trying to print envelopes for Xmas cards: Mailing > Start Mail > >>> Merge > Step > >>> by Step Mail Merge Wizard, I specify under document Type > >>> 'Envelopes'. Going > >>> ahead, all envelopes get a header & a footer, which makes no sense, > >>> apparently based on my normal.dotx. > >>> > >>> How can I delete these headers & footers? > >>> > >>> Any advice would be appreciated. > >>> > >>> Peter K > > > >