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Cindy M -WordMVP-
 
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Hi Amedee,

You've provided so much help here, I didn't want you to go without an
answer, even though I'm not certain I can provide you with one you can use
:-)

I'm not completely understanding WHY the users are copying text, with
section breaks, from another document. It sounds like all they want is
some boiler-plate text? How about putting the text into AutoText entries?
And create the AutoText entries from within your template, including a
section break YOU'VE inserted, so that it has the correct header/footer
information?

SUMMARY:

Normal typing:
First page: page header with company logo
Second page: no logo
All printed on the same paper tray
Copy/pasting:
First page: no logo, printed on tray 1
-----New section-----
Second page: company logo, printed on tray 2
Third page: no logo, printed on tray 2


BACKGROUND INFO:

Our sales department asked me to design a few Word templates with the
new company logo. What I did:
* Headers&footers different on first page
* Logo and company name in the page header of the first name

This works OK as long as they just start typing as in an empty document.


PROBLEM:

The sales people have standard documents with two different sections.
The first section is printed on paper tray 1; section two on paper tray
two. One of the paper trays has paper with small print legalese on the
back side, the other paper tray doesn't.
They open their two-sections-document, CTRL+A, CTRL+C, open one of my
templates, CTRL+V.
Result: the first page header with the company logo is now on the
second (or third) page, because the section end was also copied.


How can this be solved, and most importantly: in a "user friendly" way?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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