You don't need a section break. You can (as I assume you know) use
"Different first page" to get a different footer for the first page in a
section. To get a different value in the last page, you need an IF field:
{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "Text you want on the last page" "Text you want
on the other pages" }
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"Jane Smythee" wrote in message
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How can the last page footer of a Word 2003 document be altered without
altering the information in the footers of the other pages?
A word template document is used with a visual basic program to generate
over 26,000 individual word documents using details from a file. The
individual word documents can have between 2-30 pages. The footer of this
word template document contains a two cell table. Cell 1 of this table
must
contain a different value for the first, middle, and last pages of the
word
document. For example, the first page cell 1 must be 20. Last page cell 1
must be 10. The middle pages must be 00. The cell 1 values increment for
each
document and are not the same for each document.
If a section break is manually or programmatically added before the footer
of the last page, the first page either appears blank or it becomes
section 1
with the rest of the pages becoming section 2 even though the goal was for
the last page to become section 2. Inserting a page at the end of the
document and then attempting the section break has the same results.
How can a section break be forced before the last footer without impacting
the other pages?
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J Smythee