I know this has been posted before, but I am still at a lost and I am a
designer and I just don't get Word.

I have many sections and I would like the first page of all sections to be
different
second page to be blank
third page to have header section different
the sections that follow to be even and odd pages that are the same throughout
then you start over with section two

Is this that difficult....

Hi Treza,

If you must have one book section equal to one Word section (that is,
the part of a document between consecutive section breaks), then it
can't be done -- the second page will have the same header and footer
as the other even-numbered pages, and the third page will have the
same header and footer as the other odd-numbered pages.

One alternative is to use two Word sections for each book section: one
for the first two pages, and another for the rest of the book section.
The other alternative is to use a different program (although I don't
know which one).

Which method would you prefer?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:11:02 -0700, Treza Blu
wrote:

I know this has been posted before, but I am still at a lost and I am a
designer and I just don't get Word.

I have many sections and I would like the first page of all sections to be
different
second page to be blank
third page to have header section different
the sections that follow to be even and odd pages that are the same throughout
then you start over with section two

Is this that difficult....

How about using a conditional field for the header and footer? If page
numbering is continuous would probably need a bookmark on the first page of
each section - then use {IF} field to test current page number {PAGE} not
equal to {PAGEREF} of the bookmark +1 ?

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
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Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hi Treza,

If you must have one book section equal to one Word section (that is,
the part of a document between consecutive section breaks), then it
can't be done -- the second page will have the same header and footer
as the other even-numbered pages, and the third page will have the
same header and footer as the other odd-numbered pages.

One alternative is to use two Word sections for each book section: one
for the first two pages, and another for the rest of the book section.
The other alternative is to use a different program (although I don't
know which one).

Which method would you prefer?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:11:02 -0700, Treza Blu
wrote:

I know this has been posted before, but I am still at a lost and I am a
designer and I just don't get Word.

I have many sections and I would like the first page of all sections to be
different
second page to be blank
third page to have header section different
the sections that follow to be even and odd pages that are the same
throughout
then you start over with section two

Is this that difficult....

Yes, that might work. But you'd have to be disciplined enough to set the
correct bookmark and the matching PAGEREF field in each new section. Forget
one or the other and you get either the "Error! Bookmark not defined" field
result or a header/footer where you don't want one.

Treza, if you're still reading, the proposal is:

- In File Page Setup Layout, check both "Different first page" and
"Different odd and even".
- On the first page of each section, insert a unique bookmark. For example,
in Section 2 the bookmark might be named Sec2.
- In the headers and footers, turn off Same As Previous in each of the three
kinds (First Page, Even Page, Odd Page).
- Set up the First Page header and footer and the Odd Page header and footer
as you normally would.
- Use a nested field in the even-page header/footer, something like this:

{IF {PAGE} {={PAGEREF Sec2} + 1} "Even Page Header"}

where the bookmark name in the PAGEREF field must be the same as the
bookmark on the first page of the same section, and "Even Page Header"
represents whatever text you want on the even-numbered pages starting on the
fourth page of the section.

To create such a field, you must use Ctrl+F9 to create each pair of field
braces -- you can't type the ordinary {} characters on the keyboard, and you
can't create a nested field in the Insert Field dialog.

The meaning of the field is that the text "Even Page Header" will appear on
the even-numbered pages (because it's in the Even Page header/footer) only
if the current page number is not exactly the number of the first page of
the section plus one. It gets the page number of that first page by looking
for the Sec2 bookmark and asking for its page number.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Margaret Aldis wrote:
How about using a conditional field for the header and footer? If page
numbering is continuous would probably need a bookmark on the first
page of each section - then use {IF} field to test current page
number {PAGE} not equal to {PAGEREF} of the bookmark +1 ?


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hi Treza,

If you must have one book section equal to one Word section (that is,
the part of a document between consecutive section breaks), then it
can't be done -- the second page will have the same header and footer
as the other even-numbered pages, and the third page will have the
same header and footer as the other odd-numbered pages.

One alternative is to use two Word sections for each book section:
one for the first two pages, and another for the rest of the book
section. The other alternative is to use a different program
(although I don't know which one).

Which method would you prefer?

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:11:02 -0700, Treza Blu
wrote:

I know this has been posted before, but I am still at a lost and I
am a designer and I just don't get Word.

I have many sections and I would like the first page of all
sections to be different
second page to be blank
third page to have header section different
the sections that follow to be even and odd pages that are the same
throughout
then you start over with section two

Is this that difficult....