Footer in Word printed output

Peter, that's fixed it! Thanks for your patience and time. I pasted the 2 lines of meta tags into a topic in a new project, using a template constructed in the same way as my original project, and the RH footer appears in the 'body' of the printed Word topic - exactly the original problem. Maybe, someone cleverer than me can put this 'feature' to good use.

thanks,
mike

It could be something in the meta tags in these topics.

Could you post the meta tags from a topic where the footer does appear in the printed output?

Result 3 is the most telling, I think. A clean project works exactly as we have all been saying.

If you create a new print layout in one of the existing projects, does that then carry through the footers or does this just occur with the original print layout?

Peter, sorry not to have replied earlier but I have been trying to make some sense of it or at least find a pattern to the results. So far I have the following observations:
1. In the current project there are some topics in the printed output that do NOT have the RH footer printed in the 'body', but as i posted originally, most do. The topics that do not show the footer are consequtive topics within two chapters.
2. I created a small new project based on the current project and chopped out all but a handful of topics. Here I found only one topic had the RH footer cropping up in the printed output.
3. I created a small new project from scratch (using the same template I used in the original project) and found the expected results, ie. the RH footer does not find its way into the Word output...anywhere!

This is the story so far...pls let me have any questions.

mike

Mike

You don't seem to have picked up on my question about being able to recreate this in a small new project. If you can, I will look at it but we are all struggling because you seem to be the only person in the world who does get the footer to print, whether or not you want it.

We need to see something hands on to figure it out.

Thanks Harvey, my issue is that the RH footer is being shown in the printed doc, not as a Word footer but as part of the 'page body'.

What is shown in the Word footers are the page numbers which is OK and what i expect to see.

re. your question, the first page, which is a cover page in my doc, is set as different in Page Setup in my tempate and the documents it spawns. The first topic, which prints without a following RH footer, is actually on page 7, after the TOC.

btw...i have a workaround mentioned a few posts ago, whereby a conditional built tag excludes RH footers from the printed output.

mike

Mike,

By default, the new Word doc layout has "different first page" selected. At least it always has been so for me.

So the footer isn't getting put on the first page, apparently.

If you create a new document in Word with that template, and insert a page break, is there a footer?

Harvey

Leon, I am using my own word template to generate the printed version. I have tried style mapping.dot and get the same results, ie. RH footer appears in the Word doc immediately after each topic as text, not as a Word footer. An odd thing is that the first printed topic does not have the footer appearing - which I gather is what should be happening.

thanks,
mike

Something is wrong here.To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been able to get a RH footer to become a Word footer. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Can you recreate this in a sample project with just a couple of topics?