Hi John,
A Page number isn't considered to be, in itself, a header, but a part of a header. You can create pretty much any header you want
in Word (and it can take over or support a whole page look if needed). The Quick Part gallery is one of 36 building block galleries
in Word 2007. Each gallery can store reusable content.
Once you have setup a header that you like (be it a 3 column borderless table with a reference on the left, nothing in the middle
and a page number on the right) you can save that into the 'Page Number' or 'Header' gallery.
Once created, you can reuse the building block to replace whatever you may have in a created, inherited or collaborative document,
with the 'desired content and format'.
Word 2007 also has themeing, which allows you to change the look of the whole document later for final layout or just to 'see how it
might look' using the same type of 'mouse over preview' features that WordPerfect has had for awhile that doesn't actually change
the document.
If you have a layout as in the one you mentioned previously, but need to use it in one form for one destination and in a different
font/color etc for another destination you can apply those changes without recreating the underlying table or tab set format you had
already worked on.
It is possible to work on Word entirely in either its' HTML/XML or Open Office XML underlying code (which means if so inclined
someone can create an entirely different User Interface and work on Word files without Word)
but basically, you can switch to
draft or outline view, type away and add the looks later, (build then paint) if that works better for you
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if WordPerfect's 'owners' hadn't sold the product/company a number of times. There were
some definitely weird results in some of the product versions
I've been involved with that product since it came on spool of
magnetic tape and was a text/code editor on a Data General mini-computer. It has a different origin base and approach than Word
and both products have a place and features that the other could use.
The Building Block galleries can be helpful for the 'now where did I save that' question when you know you had something 'only last
year' but don't want to go through a lot of documents to find it
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"Prof. JR" wrote in message ...
Hi Mr. Freedman,
Thank you so much. This method works just fine and I appreciate your help.
Not to "bite the hand that feeds me," but I don't understand why Word should
be arranged like this; actually, why a page number should be considered a
"header" so that this problem occurs. On a number of seemingly simple issues
like this one WordPerfect runs so much simpler, which is why so many scholars
I know prefer WP to Word when writing complex documents.
Forgive my kvetching and please know that, as an end-user, I do find Word
2007 a great deal friendlier than 2003.
John
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MS Office System Products MVP
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