When working in my form, especially the header, my document flips into draft view.  Please help

By design, in print view the header/footer appear faded. If you switch to the header/footer for editing, the body appears faded. Is this what you are talking about?

If not, could you perhaps attach a screen shot?

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to display Header/Footer in Draft View with Word. Am I right? If yes, please try the workaround:

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You can display the header pane by adding the built-in command NormalViewHeaderArea to the QAT.

You can force the header or footer pane (but not both) in draft view by pasting the following in the VBE immediate window and pressing enter:

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Select

or

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Select

AFAIK there is no built in command to display the footer command and no way to show both.

You could also add the following macros to your normal (or other template) and assign keyboard shortcuts:

Sub ShowHeaderPane

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Select

End Sub

Sub ShowFooterPane

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Select

End Sub

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Reference:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-seeing-headerfooter-in-draft-view/614eda9e-0ff6-4457-a0dd-ac69ba19b914

If I misunderstood something, please feel free let me know.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that Word keeps randomly switching to draft view when you edited? Am I right? If yes, please see this article:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-keeps-randomly-switching-to-draft-view-when-i/67866da2-40c6-448c-91b5-e095f1638c6a?page=1&auth=1

If I misunderstood something, please feel free let me know.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

This problem could be caused by a poorly designed add-in. Work through the manual troubleshooting steps that refer to COM and Startup folder add-ins in the Knowledge Base article at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/921541.

See my previous answer. Could you perhaps describe more of what is happening and what you are doing when it happens.

See Add-Ins in Microsoft Word for more about controlling Add-Ins.