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Jean-Guy Marcil[_3_] Jean-Guy Marcil[_3_] is offline
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qumranandy was telling us:
qumranandy nous racontait que :

It's an insurance list. The left column has the last name of the
person. The next column has first name of the person. The final
column has the age. I want the header to give the beginning last name
on the page and the ending last name on the page: "Bigelow to Burr".
In the list itself I don't want "Bigelow" to appear thirty times but
rather only at the first occurrence. That means that 29 times column
one is blank or appears blank when the list is printed. How do I get
column one to be blank most of the time when printed, but despite
that the header registers the correct beginning and ending names on
the page? For instance the printed page may have only one name in the
left column: "Bowman" that appears 1/2 way down, but the header says
"Bigelow to Bowman".


Use STYLEREF fields. Apply a style to the first column, let's say
"LastName".

Then, use the following fields construction:

From {STYLEREF "LastName" } to {STYLEREF "LastName" \l}

The \l switch in the second one will make Word look from the bottom of the
page.

Use CTRL-F9 to insert the pair of {}.

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