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picking up text from current page in footer
Hi,
I have a need to be able to embed a text phrase on various pages in my document that will not be printed as part of the page, but which will be picked up from the page and displayed in the footer. The goal here is to be able to add content to the page footer on a page-by-page basis, which we'll use to put a revision number on changed pages. (I'd like to define the page footer once in the document and not have to insert section breaks so that selected pages can have their own footer definition -- too hard to maintain). For example, I'd like to be able to embed the string "Rev 1" somewhere on page 3, and have "Rev 1" appear in the footer of page 3 and only page 3. The phrase "Rev 1" shouldn't appear in the body of page 3 -- just in the footer. I've been experimenting with the {STYLEREF} field. If I style the text "Rev 1" with a style named "RevTextStyle" created just for this purpose, I can pick up the text in the footer with {STYLEREF "RevTextStyle"}. If the next page doesn't need a marker, {STYLEREF} picks up the same text, so I have to create an emtpy RevTextStyle paragraph on the next page to give {STYLEREF} something to pick up on this and subsequent pages. The problem is that if I use the Hidden font attribute to hide the RevTextStyle paragraph in the body of the page, it's also hidden in the footer, and even \* MERGEFORMAT doesn't seem to let me make the text visible always. Any suggestions? Or any ideas for other mechanisms to do this? This is a common requirement for industrial/government/military type documents, so people have to have encountered this before lots of times. I've considered using a text box (Shape object) positioned to overlap the footer. That could work too, but it's seems easy to mess up its positioning accidentally. I'd appreciate any ideas anyone might have for handling this. Thanks, Brian |
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