Graham
Wed Oct 01 00:53:39 PDT 2008
Frankly I am having a hard time imagining why when you have such an attitude
problem you feel that fellow users would be willing to continue helping you.
This is a user peer group, not Microsoft's help desk!
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
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user wrote:
> I have a hard time understanding why I have to explain the merits and
> rationale concerning this project instead of getting my question
> answered in a direct way.
>
> Do a Google search on this subject and see how many hundreds of
> others are lamenting this same problem without getting any answers
> from all the way back to Word 97.
>
> I find it somewhat offensive for all of the suggestions to offer
> nothing but criticism for the way this particular project is to be
> laid out. It's not as though I bought a soccer ball and I am
> complaining that it doesn't perform like a football. It seems to
> make sense to me that automated tasks in any software should have an
> override.
>
> To answer your question as to why I would want to use headers at all
> concerns the table of contents.
>
>
>
>
>> What you're doing is something different, but if each selection is
>> only one page long, then there's not much point in having this
>> information in the header at all. Why not just make the top margin
>> smaller and put the title and author in the document body at the top
>> of the page?
>>
>> --
>> Suzanne S. Barnhill
>> Microsoft MVP (Word)
>> Words into Type
>> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>>
>> "user" <user@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6690B1ED-0B0A-4B1B-9E60-324054FC3E9B@microsoft.com...
>>> No, this brings me back to my original question and problem.
>>> You are trying to get me to rearrange my project to fit the
>>> limitations of the software. There is no title and author name in
>>> the body of the document
>>> to reference which is why it needs to be in the headers and
>>> footers. A simple header override would be really great and a
>>> sensible thing to have I
>>> would think instead of making a person format the document the way
>>> the programmers want you to so he can show off all their ornaments.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>>>
>>>> It is easy then. Each title needs to use the Title style (or at
>>>> least a style different to any other style used in the document).
>>>> Then in the Header, you insert the StyleRef referring to the Title
>>>> Style. StyleRef will
>>>> automatically select the nearest Title Style on that page.
>>>>
>>>> I am going to assume that the authors name is somewhere in their
>>>> work too (if it isn't, then make them add it). Again, if the
>>>> Author uses its own style, you can simply use the StyleRef to pick
>>>> up the Author Style.
>>>>
>>>> This method means that you only need one section with one running
>>>> header throughout the document.
>>>>
>>>> Terry
>>>>
>>>> "user" <user@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:D64BC1C3-BE74-4F5F-9EA2-F01AD44C6651@microsoft.com...
>>>>> Currently, our solution is to print every two pages to a PDF and
>>>>> then amend
>>>>> each page, so I'm not too concerned with "all that work"
>>>>> involved. A simple
>>>>> header override would be a relief at this point!
>>>>>
>>>>> What I need is a document with a different header on every page.
>>>>> The header
>>>>> would contain title of each work and author name. There are 185
>>>>> different
>>>>> works and most are only 1-2 pages in length.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Terry Farrell" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well you need to use a Section Break, Next Page inserted at the
>>>>>> end of every
>>>>>> page, but you'll end up with hell of a complex document with
>>>>>> many, many
>>>>>> sections and many, many different Headers. Think of all that work
>>>>>> having
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> type a new Header for every page.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please tell us what you need to put in every header that is
>>>>>> different because there are many ways to automate the Header to
>>>>>> change with the page
>>>>>> contents without the need for separate sections.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "user" <user@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:E29F1C92-A261-4B29-B3BD-FE2E4360702B@microsoft.com...
>>>>>>> I have a document that I need different headers for each page.
>>>>>>> I have been trying to use section breaks (next page) but it
>>>>>>> inserts a
>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>> blank page into the document and doesn't apply it to the ACTUAL
>>>>>>> next page
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> need the section break at.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do I have to start from scratch or is there a way to insert a
>>>>>>> section
>>>>>>> break
>>>>>>> into a document so I can unlink the Link To Previous option so
>>>>>>> I can have
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> unique header on each page?