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Paolo F Cantoni

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Internal RTF Viewer Header/Footer failure
« on: September 25, 2008, 12:42:28 am »
I was doing some changes to an RTF template and the cycle of generate, load RTF in Word, investigate if I got what I expected was too long...  So I did what most users might do, I started to use the internal viewer.

In the words of the Split Enz song:  That was my mistake! That was my mistaaaake!

Somewhere during the editing of the template the headers and footers disappeared!

An hour of fruitless experimentation (and a by chance reloading into Word of the generated document) revealed that the headers and footers were there all the time!  The internal viewer doesn't render them!

Sheesh!

Oh, and while we're at it, page breaks are optional in the generated document, but not in the internal viewer!  They must be followed by a hard return else, they won't appear in the generated document but WILL be rendered in the internal viewer...

Hope this help some other poor user...

<EDIT>
The internal viewer CAN display the Header/Footer (<context menu>|View[ch9658]|Page Header/Footer) , but not by default! - Thanks Sparxian Dermot.  There is a request to change the default to show the headers and footers.
</EDIT>

Paolo
« Last Edit: September 25, 2008, 01:20:35 pm by PaoloFCantoni »
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