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Headers, Footers, And Using The Advance Featu
DocumentID: 651630
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:08 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is using Advance in Headers/Footers. When they use Advance To Line in the footer (to put something at the bottom of the page on a specific line) it is only recognizing the amount of space left after the header is defined. In other words, it forces the customer to subtract the header size from the page size. This seems logical. However, when the document is printed it advances the information in the footer according to the top of the physical form, rather than the bottom of the header. The operator is able to duplicate this with the 08/20/90 release. Solutions: The reason the customer is having difficulty using the Advance feature in conjunction with headers/footers is due to the way headers/footers are formatted by the program. WP treats headers/footers as pages within a page. These pages are limited by the amount of space of the actual dimensions of the defined form within WP. Now, when headers/footers are used simultaneously in a document they obviously cannot occupy each other's space. Therefore, the maximum size of the second code (when two are used) is dictated by the amount left to it by the first.

For example, take a standard form of 8.5" x 11". If a header is defined and includes a code for Advance to Line 4", and a footer is defined with Advance to Line 10", the error message "Error: Too Much Text" would be the result. Even though the Advance values are not going all the way to the end of the page the error will occur. This is because the footer doesn't have the full eleven inches of the page to work with, only the 7 inches the header hasn't appropriated for itself. Since at the time of defining a header or footer, the program only recognizes as the page size what has been left over by the previous code, the Advance feature is artificially limited until the definition process is complete (as far as the actual page is concerned).

Now another problem arises, once a header or footer has been successfully defined, WordPerfect is going to read the advance codes as it should. The advance codes are read as absolute positions of the actual page. This means that Advance codes that were defined in the footer's line 6", will now print 4 inches higher because it is no longer artificially being forced down by a header code. To remedy this problem, one needs only to define the footer before the header. This way, the footer has access to the entire page that would otherwise be partially taken up by the header. One can now advance down to positions on a page that were previously out of reach.

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