[Stefan Blom]

Footers (as well as headers) are linked to previous, by default, in
newly created sections.

For existing sections, you would have to manually click the Same As
Previous/Link to Previous buttons (the name is different in different
versions of Word) on the Header and Footer toolbar for each type of
footer (and/or header).

To speed up the process in your long document, a macro could be
helpful:

1. Cut the contents from the footer you want to keep; you can
temporarily paste it into the current or another document.

2. Run the following macro to "connect" footers:

Sub LinkFooters()
Dim s As Section
For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterEvenPages).LinkToPrevious = True
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).LinkToPrevious = True
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).LinkToPrevious = True
Next s
End Sub

3. Paste the contents that you cut in step 1 into the first, even, and
odd footer of any section.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"K J" wrote in message
ps.com...
Thank you...it's nice to confirm that theoretically they CAN be
linked
across sections...but I still haven't found a way to automate
actually making them do it. :-\