Removing One Footer (WORD '03)

[vawoman]

I have a lengthy tech document. Title page has no footer or header (this is what is desired, no changes here).
2nd page of document is now blank and I need to remove ONLY the footer on this page. When I try to remove it, the footers throughout the document go away....
What I want to simply do is move everything up one page, and retain the footers that are applied throughout.
Thanks,

[StuartR]

You need to insert a section break at the end of page 2. You can then edit the footer on page 3 and clear the button for "Link to Previous". Finally you can delete the footer contents on page 2.

StuartR

[HansV]

Select View | Headers and Footers...
Activate the second page footer.
Position the insertion point at the beginning and press Ctrl+F9 to insert field brackets.
Type IF followed by a space, then press Ctrl+F9 again.
Type PAGE, then move the insertion point to between the two closing brackets.
Type <code> > 2 "" ""</code>
It should now look like this:
<code>{ IF { PAGE } > 2 "" "" }</code>
Now move or cut/paste the original footer between the first pair of quotes:
<code>{ IF { PAGE } > 2 "this is the footer text" "" }</code>
Press F9 to update.

[vawoman]

I've tried this twice. I'm doing each step. At the final end when I do the F9, I get a row of RED error messages:

conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for conditional.Error! Unknown op code for

[HansV]

That means you entered the field codes incorrectly. Try Stuart's suggestion instead.

[vawoman]

I did Stuart's suggestion and it worked. But, I would like to better understand field codes. Can you suggest something that will educate me? Thanks! : )

[HansV]

Try Charles Kenyon's Using Fields in Microsoft Word - a Tutorial in the Intermediate Users' Guide to Microsoft Word.