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Insert changing informationinto header
I am trying to insert page specific information into headers of documents.
We prepare meeting agendas in Word tables that easily reach 15 - 20 pages. The time block for 10:30 - 12:30, for example may have three pages of detail We use a Word table set up like this; Start time End Time Subjects We of course do not want the times to repeat on every line. But it is confusing when there are several pages in a row with no times at all on them. I had thought I could use section breaks (they would need to be continuous, not new page section breaks) and have a different header for each section, name each section according to the time inserted into the table, and insert that section name into each page's header. Now, I could go through and manually do this. But our people are not particularly computer literate and I was looking for some way to set it up for them. I could get them to maybe insert section breaks after each time slot, but to get into the intricacies of a system like would be used to insert cross references that refer to chapter headings in a manuscript are well beyond their capability or determination. I think I am to used to Access where in reports I believe I could do this somewhat easily. Is there any way to tell Word to insert whatever the last non-empty entry in a column of a table was (up to that point in the document) into a header for that page? |
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Hi Robert,
Format the time in the text with a style that you don't use for anything else. Then place a StyleRef field in the header, and it will repeat the most recent text having that style. Check the help topic on the StyleRef field to see the various ways it can be used. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org RobertMcCafferty wrote: I am trying to insert page specific information into headers of documents. We prepare meeting agendas in Word tables that easily reach 15 - 20 pages. The time block for 10:30 - 12:30, for example may have three pages of detail We use a Word table set up like this; Start time End Time Subjects We of course do not want the times to repeat on every line. But it is confusing when there are several pages in a row with no times at all on them. I had thought I could use section breaks (they would need to be continuous, not new page section breaks) and have a different header for each section, name each section according to the time inserted into the table, and insert that section name into each page's header. Now, I could go through and manually do this. But our people are not particularly computer literate and I was looking for some way to set it up for them. I could get them to maybe insert section breaks after each time slot, but to get into the intricacies of a system like would be used to insert cross references that refer to chapter headings in a manuscript are well beyond their capability or determination. I think I am to used to Access where in reports I believe I could do this somewhat easily. Is there any way to tell Word to insert whatever the last non-empty entry in a column of a table was (up to that point in the document) into a header for that page? |
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