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Peter T. Daniels Peter T. Daniels is offline
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Default Changing headers for sections

You can use Find-Replace to remove all the existing section breaks.
Just open the pane (Ctrl-H), go to "More" and then "Special," and
scroll down to "Section Break" (or simply type ^b in the Find box).
Leave the Replace box empty, and click "Replace All."

Then you can follow my instructions for inserting your handful of
section breaks (if every page needs a different running head, you
shouldn't be using running heads in the first place).

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. (There, I've probably run
out of aphorisms.)

On Jul 31, 6:43*pm, endless wrote:
I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and
your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us work!
I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next.
Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not looking
forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word Help
- it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their
instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they give
advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but it's
unavoidable whenever I use this program!

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