Word document issue: Header shifts layout
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Hello,
I'm contacting you because I have a big problem with Word.
Indeed, I've been working for months on a "book" that I created in Word with a very important layout. It's a book with a black background (which is important).
I recently had to reset my computer and reinstalled Word (version 2019 16.22).
However, I'm facing a significant layout issue since this installation on my book: it is completely misaligned. In fact, after fiddling around a bit, I found that it's due to a header bar (which I NEVER set up in the original Word file, created under Word 2016).
Problem: I delete the header bar and when I do, big white "squares" appear all over my file (I'll try to attach a photo for those who want to see what it looks like).
https://www.casimages.com/i/190228040503806362.png.html
So to fix this, I put a black background back in "Design" then "Page Color." Now everything is black AND... the header bar is back, and everything is misaligned again!!!!!
If anyone has a solution, you will really save me, I beg you.
Thank you in advance!
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I'm contacting you because I have a big problem with Word.
Indeed, I've been working for months on a "book" that I created in Word with a very important layout. It's a book with a black background (which is important).
I recently had to reset my computer and reinstalled Word (version 2019 16.22).
However, I'm facing a significant layout issue since this installation on my book: it is completely misaligned. In fact, after fiddling around a bit, I found that it's due to a header bar (which I NEVER set up in the original Word file, created under Word 2016).
Problem: I delete the header bar and when I do, big white "squares" appear all over my file (I'll try to attach a photo for those who want to see what it looks like).
https://www.casimages.com/i/190228040503806362.png.html
So to fix this, I put a black background back in "Design" then "Page Color." Now everything is black AND... the header bar is back, and everything is misaligned again!!!!!
If anyone has a solution, you will really save me, I beg you.
Thank you in advance!
Configuration: Macintosh / Safari 12.0.3
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It's difficult to give a relevant opinion without seeing exactly what's going on. Let's say the first hypothesis is that of a slight corruption of the document, a phenomenon quite classic with large documents that have a long history of corrections, version changes, etc.
You can try opening a copy of the document with LibreOffice and then saving it again (still in .docx, of course). The double conversion this entails generally yields good results in terms of "cleaning" the corruption.
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Hello, thank you for the response!
I forgot to mention that even on other documents of the same kind (I have individual sub-chapters + the file with all the chapters), it adds the same header!
I used LibreOffice and I had the same issue. It ALWAYS adds this header to my documents.
Perhaps I forgot to mention: it has no margins. -
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I can send you the document with a different font if you want, like "Times" for example. That way you will see that the layout elements are still misaligned!
Otherwise, set it to: remove the header after setting it to 0cm, and you will see that it gets misaligned again (and that it's perfect for the layout but I lose the black background!) -
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