OK, I’ll make this one short and sweet- I"m trying to get my resume online. To have enough room at a 12pt font I’ve utilized the header/footer regions for contact info (header) and reference available upon request (footer). I want ONE page… One,one,one- grrrrrrr
Ok, so after combing the help pages all over I figure out that I need to create a page break/section break… essentially break the connection between the header on the first page and the header on the second page (which I never wanted to begin with) … which after doing I was able to delete the 2nd header and footer without affecting the 1st page contents. OK great! … So why the hell do I still have two blank pages attached to my resume which now nicely fits onto one page?
I wish there was a part that said “number of pages” and a box to type in how many pages you want. But noooooo. Yeah, sure I can only select the 1st page when I’m printing, but what about online? Some potential employer prints me out from the web and gets two extra pages with nothin’ on ‘em… cute. A resume for a computer using that clearly to them can’t use a computer… hmm - a wee bit of a problem ehhh? Somebody help me before I pull my firggin’ hair out… :smack:
Go to the last line of the first page, and hold down the Delete (not backspace) key until the second page disappears. That usually works. (Alternatively, you can use CTRL-Shift End to highlight everything from the cursor to the end of the page)
If not, copy and paste the first page onto a new document.
As for this method, I tried this last time at my wife’s suggestion- it’s cutting corners and it brings up the same issues once pasted in a new document- the only way I see freedom from this crap is to just not implement the header/footer feature at all… taking suggestions, anybody? anybody? :smack:
Ok, I tried this one and I get a dialog box that says “After several attempts Microsoft Word was unable to shrink the document by one page” :dubious: …sigh thanks for playing “lift my curse” … ya’ll come back now… sorry cracking…
>Sobs opening< I’m freeeee!laughter with a touch of insanity oh-dear-God-thank-you… >sniff<
Bless you Julie… God bless ya… >sniffle<
** For all those still wondering Julie fixed my resume and sent it back a sparkling vision of completeness… sighhh :dubious: heh… anyway, I owe ya one Julie, if you ever need any Computer Graphic work done, you got it.
You’re mis-using the feature. That was designed for header/footer info that you want to re-appear on every page. But you only want I page.
Anytime you try to use a computer program feature for something it was not designed to do, you are likely to run into problems. It’s best to avoid such mis-uses; they almost always end up giving you problems.
It should be possible to do what you want without using header/footer. You can just put those section breaks right into your page, for example. I’ll bet Julie’s fix does something like this.
Well because I only had about 45 seconds before I had to go catch the train, I just fixed the technical problem, which was that there was a hard section break hiding at the bottom of the page. The longer solution would have been, as you say, to take out the header and footer, but then I would probably have just changed the top and bottom margin dimensions.
This is tangential to the real problem, but the OP mentioned it, so I’ll answer it.
Using separate sections to force different header/footers for the first & subsequent pages is just wrong.
You CAN have differing header/footers on the first page vs other pages within a section or across a whole doc. The problem is that MS cleverly hid the switch for that so it’s almost impossible to find. Once you find it it works great. You’d expect it to be an option on the floating toolbar for header/footer features that appears when you go into header/footer editing mode. Nope.
It’s under the “Page Setup …” menu item on the “Layouts” tab. Under the “Headers and footers” area there’s a checkbox for “Different first page”. Once that’s checked you can create a different header/footer for page 2 and subsequent.
Rather confusingly, until you actually have a page 2 in the doc you can’t get to the header/footer for it. So you can’t set them all up first and then begin entering text. You have to enter more than one page’s worth of text to get the opportunity to set the 2nd-page header/footer.
You can insert a pagebreak in a short doc to force a page 2 into existence, then you can change its header/footer. If you then delete the page break so the doc collapses to a single page, all evidence of the different header/footer disappears. But when the doc grows above 1 page again, the different header/footer reappears. Word didn’t forget it, it just didn’t have a reason to show it to you.
I’m not defending the way they did this feature set, just explaining it.
And in answer to the implied Q of the OP, if you truly want a single-page doc and will always edit content to keep it that way, then best to leave off headers & footers, set the gutters and margins to very small, and enter your contact info at the top & bottom of the body. Conversely, my resume is a couple of pages long and so I use the footer for contact info because I want it to float at the bottom of each page.
