Paul my question really is: How did I get to this situation in my document:

After I do a Footer, Edit footer:

1. When I click on odd footer numbers, I get a text box surrounding the footer.

2. When I click on even footer number, the number gets a gray background and no text box.

I have a long document (over 200 pages) with this problem so I can't edit each page separately. I need the text box so that I can use the format commands to position certain numbers manually. This is because my book has sections which alternate between portrait and landscape.

Chaim