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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the
Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the
final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
Thanks Stefan - I was hoping you would pick up this thread. I had read many
of the previous solutions to a problem simular to mine, but they all called for making the headers and footers "Same as Previous" which wouldnt apply in my case. Your document "Working with Sections" does have the answer: "make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one." However, with regards to copying the header and footer formatting information I could not get the instructions that followed the above quote to work. Going to FILE then PAGE SETTINGS and pressing RETURN and then going to the last section and pressing F4 did not, in my case, copy the header and footer formatting to the last section. Have I missunderstood something in these instructions? I did accomplish the copy the header/footer formatting to the current last page by going into the last section header I wanted to preserve, pressing Control-A then Control-C and then going to the header of the current last section and pressing Control-A then Control-V. Same thing for the footers. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
The Enter, then F4 solution would save the "settings" (top and bottom
margins, header and footer margins, and so on) but not any content. There are also some section properties (such as columns) that can't be replicated this way. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. RjS; CISSP; "CISA" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan - I was hoping you would pick up this thread. I had read many of the previous solutions to a problem simular to mine, but they all called for making the headers and footers "Same as Previous" which wouldnt apply in my case. Your document "Working with Sections" does have the answer: "make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one." However, with regards to copying the header and footer formatting information I could not get the instructions that followed the above quote to work. Going to FILE then PAGE SETTINGS and pressing RETURN and then going to the last section and pressing F4 did not, in my case, copy the header and footer formatting to the last section. Have I missunderstood something in these instructions? I did accomplish the copy the header/footer formatting to the current last page by going into the last section header I wanted to preserve, pressing Control-A then Control-C and then going to the header of the current last section and pressing Control-A then Control-V. Same thing for the footers. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
But note that you can duplicate the settings for columns separately, by
using the *Columns* dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The Enter, then F4 solution would save the "settings" (top and bottom margins, header and footer margins, and so on) but not any content. There are also some section properties (such as columns) that can't be replicated this way. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. RjS; CISSP; "CISA" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan - I was hoping you would pick up this thread. I had read many of the previous solutions to a problem simular to mine, but they all called for making the headers and footers "Same as Previous" which wouldnt apply in my case. Your document "Working with Sections" does have the answer: "make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one." However, with regards to copying the header and footer formatting information I could not get the instructions that followed the above quote to work. Going to FILE then PAGE SETTINGS and pressing RETURN and then going to the last section and pressing F4 did not, in my case, copy the header and footer formatting to the last section. Have I missunderstood something in these instructions? I did accomplish the copy the header/footer formatting to the current last page by going into the last section header I wanted to preserve, pressing Control-A then Control-C and then going to the header of the current last section and pressing Control-A then Control-V. Same thing for the footers. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
Of course. You can replicate any of the section formatting directly, but the
simple Enter, F4 solution in Page Setup doesn't work for these other settings, as discussed in the private.mvp.word NG recently. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... But note that you can duplicate the settings for columns separately, by using the *Columns* dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The Enter, then F4 solution would save the "settings" (top and bottom margins, header and footer margins, and so on) but not any content. There are also some section properties (such as columns) that can't be replicated this way. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. RjS; CISSP; "CISA" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan - I was hoping you would pick up this thread. I had read many of the previous solutions to a problem simular to mine, but they all called for making the headers and footers "Same as Previous" which wouldnt apply in my case. Your document "Working with Sections" does have the answer: "make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one." However, with regards to copying the header and footer formatting information I could not get the instructions that followed the above quote to work. Going to FILE then PAGE SETTINGS and pressing RETURN and then going to the last section and pressing F4 did not, in my case, copy the header and footer formatting to the last section. Have I missunderstood something in these instructions? I did accomplish the copy the header/footer formatting to the current last page by going into the last section header I wanted to preserve, pressing Control-A then Control-C and then going to the header of the current last section and pressing Control-A then Control-V. Same thing for the footers. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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Deleting Section Break Modifies preceeding headers
I do see the point you are making (and it is an important one). I just
wanted to clarify what *can* be done, for anyone following this thread. :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Of course. You can replicate any of the section formatting directly, but the simple Enter, F4 solution in Page Setup doesn't work for these other settings, as discussed in the private.mvp.word NG recently. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... But note that you can duplicate the settings for columns separately, by using the *Columns* dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The Enter, then F4 solution would save the "settings" (top and bottom margins, header and footer margins, and so on) but not any content. There are also some section properties (such as columns) that can't be replicated this way. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. RjS; CISSP; "CISA" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan - I was hoping you would pick up this thread. I had read many of the previous solutions to a problem simular to mine, but they all called for making the headers and footers "Same as Previous" which wouldnt apply in my case. Your document "Working with Sections" does have the answer: "make sure that the section formatting of the final section is identical to that of the preceding one." However, with regards to copying the header and footer formatting information I could not get the instructions that followed the above quote to work. Going to FILE then PAGE SETTINGS and pressing RETURN and then going to the last section and pressing F4 did not, in my case, copy the header and footer formatting to the last section. Have I missunderstood something in these instructions? I did accomplish the copy the header/footer formatting to the current last page by going into the last section header I wanted to preserve, pressing Control-A then Control-C and then going to the header of the current last section and pressing Control-A then Control-V. Same thing for the footers. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Each section break stores the formatting of the preceding section (and the final paragraph mark of a document contains a hidden section break). So when you delete a section break, you are deleting the headers and footers (as well as other settings) of the preceding pages. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "RjS, CISSP, CISA" wrote in message ... Hi - I have a number of documents that are divided into sections with the Section Break Marker. Each section then has its own header and footer and most of the information in each header consists of a number of bookmark cross-referrences into that section. The problem that I am encountering, which appears as a solid bug to me, is that if I delete a following section (by removing the section break and all subsequest text) then all of the header information of the preceeding section is changed to point to the bookmarks in the section I just deleted. Then, when the book is printed all of those references break. Worse - the newly changes cross-references are sticky... i.e. after editing them back to a correct cross reference when the document is saved they revert back to the incorrect cross reference to the now non-existant section. Is there any advise or workarounds. Much Appreciated |
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