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Please HELP I can't figure this out!
Hello:
I am surprised and frustrated, that an easy sounding task like described below is giving me so much trouble. I have to create a document, which consists of one big table. (No problem). This table should have a head which consists of a few rows, which should be repeated on each page. (No problem). There should be just one further row: the "body row". This one should fill the rest of the page (one row, one column). (No problem). Now it gets difficult: The header rows (which should be repeated) have some columns which contain information like date of creation, last edit date, page number. (1) The page number should count up automatically. (2) The date of creation should be filled in automatically. (3) The last edit date should be editable (FOR EACH PAGE INDIVIDUALLY). Ok, that means, I cannot use the repeating table header function, because (as far as I know) the information you type in on one page stays the same on all pages. So, I have to use a header ... which I tried. The main problem: (1) and (2) are not a problem with a header, but (3). One minor problem: In addition, there is one empty line below the table I created within the header which I am not able to get rid of. I want to make the whole page look like one table: so, the columns and rows in the header plus the one column / one row in the body should look like one table. I set the font size of the one empty line in between to "1" which of course doesn't make it look perfect, but a little better. I hope someone can help me. -- Thank you for your help! |
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Please HELP I can't figure this out!
Hi Becky,
Headers are properties of _sections_ and not _pages_. In order to have a separately editable entry in the header of each page, you must make each page its own section (by inserting a section break at the end of each page), and each header must have "Same As Previous" turned off. Unless you provide some macro in the template to take care of these details, they're going to have to be repeated manually each time you add another page. A subterfuge that could work (again, best created by a macro) is to insert a text box that is anchored in the body row of each table but positioned in the header area. It would look like part of the header table, but (as far a Word is concerned) would actually be part of the body row. That would remove the need for section breaks; another advantage is that you wouldn't have to open the header area in order to edit it. -- 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. Becky wrote: Hello: I am surprised and frustrated, that an easy sounding task like described below is giving me so much trouble. I have to create a document, which consists of one big table. (No problem). This table should have a head which consists of a few rows, which should be repeated on each page. (No problem). There should be just one further row: the "body row". This one should fill the rest of the page (one row, one column). (No problem). Now it gets difficult: The header rows (which should be repeated) have some columns which contain information like date of creation, last edit date, page number. (1) The page number should count up automatically. (2) The date of creation should be filled in automatically. (3) The last edit date should be editable (FOR EACH PAGE INDIVIDUALLY). Ok, that means, I cannot use the repeating table header function, because (as far as I know) the information you type in on one page stays the same on all pages. So, I have to use a header ... which I tried. The main problem: (1) and (2) are not a problem with a header, but (3). One minor problem: In addition, there is one empty line below the table I created within the header which I am not able to get rid of. I want to make the whole page look like one table: so, the columns and rows in the header plus the one column / one row in the body should look like one table. I set the font size of the one empty line in between to "1" which of course doesn't make it look perfect, but a little better. I hope someone can help me. |
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