...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 dont format it too much, or youll 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 dont 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 the top of every page.

Now, this feature is just several minutes old, but it is broken, so lets hope the Google Docs team is fast moving and fixes this as soon as they hear about it, and doesnt just file away the bug to be fixed sometime in the not-so-near future. Google Docs users have been clamoring for things like headers and footers, but if you cant style them without fear of breaking them, they might as well have not been shipped at all.

Oh, and for gods sake, dont press Enter on your keyboard and try to put a second line in the header! The results are just plain unpredictable, in my experience.

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