Format Error - headers inserting into the document automatically in the wrong places

Question

Hi

I have a word document that I edit in both word 2007 and word 2010 and somehow Word adds additional headers (which you can see in the outline view) to the document without user consent. That is header in the wrong place.

This is only happening to one of my documents and thought it was a word virus. Are there any tricks to get rid of this.

Thanks

Answer 1

Word can not have more than one real header on a page. As Doug posted, can you share a screen shot? Could it be a textbox on the page?

It is interesting that you mention that you can see the "additional headers" in outline view. Normally in outline view you do NOT see headers at all.

Answer 2

Are you talking about the Page Header or a Heading paragraph?

Can you provide a screen shot of the issue.

Answer 3

I tried 2 solutions. Firstly I tried changing the style of the affected paragraphs to Normal style (Home Tab, Styles Section). This appeared to work as this was removing the non-heading text from the TOC. However when I had worked with this file in Word 2007 then back to Word 2010 the problem came back.

The second thing I tried was going into Outline view selecting the affected paragraphs and changing them to body text in the Outline tools section.

So far this seems to be working.

Answer 4

The solution is to ensure your non-heading content does not have one of Word's Heading Styles applied. Merely changing the appearance of the text isn't enough; you have to choose a different paragraph Style (e.g. Body Text, Normal, etc).

Answer 5

Sorry I am referring to paragraph headings. I fixed the text in outline view hoping that the problem does not come back. So I cannot send a screen shot.