New Google Docs Header/Footers: Broken

Google Docs added a new feature today to its word processor: headers and footers.
Except…
If you look in your Google document editor, under the Edit tab, you’ll see buttons for Header and Footer. Click them, and you can create a text field at the top and bottom of the document. After you click it, you get a dashed box where you can type some text. You can even format the text, but don’t format it too much, or you’ll break the header box.
Some kinds of formatting, when undone, will break the box and turn your header into regular old text. Other kinds, like the now-awfully-named Header styles on the Style menu will also break the box when activated, so don’t even try using them. The same goes for footers. Break the box, and the header will appear right where it is, but not repeated at […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg