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How to customize Headers?
What's the best way to customize the Headers in my Word document? In my
document I have these headers: Index Foreword _______________________ II Introduction ___________________ III Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1 Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2 Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3 References ______________________ A The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at the end of the document. I would like to have the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x' like depicted. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom "NumberedHeader 1" and changing it list properties? And create another customized style "UnnumberedHeader" for the Foreword, Intro and References chapters? And a "NotTOCHeader" for the Index header? Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making "Header 1" like "NumberedHeader 1". And e.g. "Header 6" equal to the style "UnnumberedHeader" (with level 1) and "Header 7" equal to the style "NotTOCHeader" (with level 9). I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using { IncludeText } fields and wouldn't like to update all normal "Header 1" in all the included documents to something like "NumberedHeader 1". I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned methods. Many thanks in advance! |
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Sorry about the syntax, I didn't notice the double quotes were a problem.
I'll repost my question: ____________________________________ What's the best way to customize the Headers in my Word document? In my document I have these headers: Index Foreword _______________________ II Introduction ___________________ III Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1 Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2 Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3 References ______________________ A The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at the end of the document. I would like to have the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x' like depicted. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom 'NumberedHeader 1' and changing it list properties? And create another customized style 'UnnumberedHeader' for the Foreword, Intro and References chapters? And a 'NotTOCHeader' for the Index header? Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making 'Header 1' like 'NumberedHeader 1'. And e.g. 'Header 6' equal to the style 'UnnumberedHeader' (with level 1) and 'Header 7' equal to the style 'NotTOCHeader' (with level 9). I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using {IncludeText} fields and wouldn't like to update all normal 'Header 1' in all the included documents to something like 'NumberedHeader 1'. I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned methods. Many thanks in advance! |
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I am not seeing any problem with your quotes. What you want is a StyleRef
field to pick up the chapter number and title. You will find information on this in the Help topic "Field codes: StyleRef field" and in http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm -- 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. "Saviourmachine" wrote in message news Sorry about the syntax, I didn't notice the double quotes were a problem. I'll repost my question: ____________________________________ What's the best way to customize the Headers in my Word document? In my document I have these headers: Index Foreword _______________________ II Introduction ___________________ III Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1 Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2 Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3 References ______________________ A The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at the end of the document. I would like to have the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x' like depicted. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom 'NumberedHeader 1' and changing it list properties? And create another customized style 'UnnumberedHeader' for the Foreword, Intro and References chapters? And a 'NotTOCHeader' for the Index header? Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making 'Header 1' like 'NumberedHeader 1'. And e.g. 'Header 6' equal to the style 'UnnumberedHeader' (with level 1) and 'Header 7' equal to the style 'NotTOCHeader' (with level 9). I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using {IncludeText} fields and wouldn't like to update all normal 'Header 1' in all the included documents to something like 'NumberedHeader 1'. I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned methods. Many thanks in advance! |
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Ah, ah! My fault! I consistenly used the wrong word 'Header' in stead of
'Heading'. Mistake, mistake! Maybe my question does make sense now. I'll repost another time: ____________________ What's the best way to customize the Headings in my Word document? In my document I have these headings: Index Foreword _______________________ II Introduction ___________________ III Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1 Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2 Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3 References ______________________ A The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at the end of the document. I would like to add to the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x' like you can see above. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom 'NumberedHeading 1' and changing it list properties? And create another customized style 'UnnumberedHeading' for the Foreword, Intro and References chapters? And a 'NotTOCHeading' for the Index header? Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making 'Heading 1' like 'NumberedHeading 1'. And e.g. 'Heading 6' equal to the style 'UnnumberedHeading' and 'Heading 7' equal to the style 'NotTOCHeading (and adding respectively excluding these Headings when creating a TOC). I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using {IncludeText} fields and wouldn't like to update all normal 'Heading 1' in all the included documents to something like 'NumberedHeading 1'. I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned methods. Many thanks in advance! |
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I'm very curious about what this means, and why the index is at the front of
your book? (where I imagine no one will know to look for it?) The Index is hidden in the TOC. In general, it is a better idea to stick with Word's built-in styles, for reasons see: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html If I have interpreted the question correctly: You can use Heading 1 (with numbering added) for the chapters, and Heading 2 (without numbering) for Foreword, Intro, References, etc, and define Heading 1 and Heading 2 to be identical save for the numbering, and when creating the TOC, click on Options, and set the TOC level for Heading 1 and Heading 2 to the same number, and then the TOC entries for those will also be identical. (Then all these headings will look the same to the reader, but Word can treat them differently). I am not sure why the Index heading would need a different style from the Foreword heading, in your book. I guess if you don't want the TOC entry to have a page number, it needs a different TOC level to automate that, and thus a different style, which again, you would presumably define as nearly identical. When modifying Heading 1 and Heading 2, you will have to be careful of the "based on" setting, which lets styles inherit settings from each other. It may in fact be easier to use Heading 1 unnumbered and add the numbering to Heading 2, as otherwise Heading 2 may inherit the numbering and then you will have to remove it. I forget the exact dynamics, and what will happen to Heading 3. You may need to experiment a bit. The general principle of what I said above will hold, regardless of the exact details of Heading 1 or Heading 2, etc. You will also find a list of useful links relative to such documents here, though possibly more basic than you need right now: http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm If you are using outline numbering within your chapters, see he http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html In that case, it *might* be better to use a non-built-in style for the Index and Intro/Foreword/References, to keep them from interfering with the rest of your numbering hierarchy, though I'm not entirely sure. Same principles apply. On 8/3/05 8:51 AM, "Saviourmachine" wrote: Ah, ah! My fault! I consistenly used the wrong word 'Header' in stead of 'Heading'. Mistake, mistake! Maybe my question does make sense now. I'll repost another time: ____________________ What's the best way to customize the Headings in my Word document? In my document I have these headings: Index Foreword _______________________ II Introduction ___________________ III Chapter 1 Universality ___________ 1 Chapter 2 Uniqueness ____________ 2 Chapter 3 Iconicity ______________ 3 References ______________________ A The Index is hidden in the TOC. The Foreword and Introduction are in a seperate section, as well as the text chapters, as well as the references at the end of the document. I would like to add to the 'ordinary text' chapters the prefix 'Chapter x' like you can see above. What's the best thing to do? To create a custom 'NumberedHeading 1' and changing it list properties? And create another customized style 'UnnumberedHeading' for the Foreword, Intro and References chapters? And a 'NotTOCHeading' for the Index header? Or is it better to use Word's inbuilt styles? Making 'Heading 1' like 'NumberedHeading 1'. And e.g. 'Heading 6' equal to the style 'UnnumberedHeading' and 'Heading 7' equal to the style 'NotTOCHeading (and adding respectively excluding these Headings when creating a TOC). I guess it's the latter. I see already some advantage because I'm using {IncludeText} fields and wouldn't like to update all normal 'Heading 1' in all the included documents to something like 'NumberedHeading 1'. I'd appreciate to hear some advantages or disadvantages of the mentioned methods. Many thanks in advance! -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Hi Daiya,
Thank you for your answer. The link http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html was just what I was looking for. Oh, no. Index is Dutch, in English I mean Contents. The heading Contents doesn't have to show up in the ToC itself, of course. That's why I defined an additional heading for it. The shortcut keys Ctrl+Alt+1 are for built-in styles. That's indeed an advantage. I use a macro with Alt+1 to update my Heading 1 style on the fly. In that case built-in styles are handy too. The numbering Heading 2 for the chapters, and Heading 1 for the Intro etc. In that case Heading 3 has to inherit from Heading 1. That's possible. However, in the documents that I link by { InsertText } fields, the chapter heading is Heading 1, the second Heading 2, etc. So, I'll stick with using the (unnecessary) Heading 6 en 7 for the Intro, etc sections, and the Contents section. That gives only an awkward look in the Ouline view. Oh, something is entering my mind. :-) To create consistency betwen the different Header styles (numbered, unnumbered and invisible in ToC) all of them can be inherited from a custom Heading style. Thus again an UnnumberedHeading and InvisibleInToCHeading. Only point 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14 apply. It's a pity they didn't define Heading for these section, because there is an Index Heading, as well as a TOA Heading. Maybe something for a new version. :-) You helped me a lot, thanks! Andy "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: I'm very curious about what this means, and why the index is at the front of your book? (where I imagine no one will know to look for it?) The Index is hidden in the TOC. In general, it is a better idea to stick with Word's built-in styles, for reasons see: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...ingStyles.html If I have interpreted the question correctly: You can use Heading 1 (with numbering added) for the chapters, and Heading 2 (without numbering) for Foreword, Intro, References, etc, and define Heading 1 and Heading 2 to be identical save for the numbering, and when creating the TOC, click on Options, and set the TOC level for Heading 1 and Heading 2 to the same number, and then the TOC entries for those will also be identical. (Then all these headings will look the same to the reader, but Word can treat them differently). I am not sure why the Index heading would need a different style from the Foreword heading, in your book. I guess if you don't want the TOC entry to have a page number, it needs a different TOC level to automate that, and thus a different style, which again, you would presumably define as nearly identical. When modifying Heading 1 and Heading 2, you will have to be careful of the "based on" setting, which lets styles inherit settings from each other. It may in fact be easier to use Heading 1 unnumbered and add the numbering to Heading 2, as otherwise Heading 2 may inherit the numbering and then you will have to remove it. I forget the exact dynamics, and what will happen to Heading 3. You may need to experiment a bit. The general principle of what I said above will hold, regardless of the exact details of Heading 1 or Heading 2, etc. You will also find a list of useful links relative to such documents here, though possibly more basic than you need right now: http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm If you are using outline numbering within your chapters, see he http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html In that case, it *might* be better to use a non-built-in style for the Index and Intro/Foreword/References, to keep them from interfering with the rest of your numbering hierarchy, though I'm not entirely sure. Same principles apply. |
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