[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Gil

gil wrote:
Answer: because the letters here need to be a part of the document rather
than separate documents.

Bad idea (IMHO).


The flow of the patient file looks like:
first appointment 7-1-05
telephone appointment 8-1-05
2nd appt 9-1-05
letter to patient 10-01-05
letter to specialist 11-01-05
3rd appt 12-01-05, .....

Is it possible to make separate document for each and every service for each
patient? Yes, but it would be at great cost and complexity and loss of
efficiency.

I don't see the overhead for using one file for each service (you can
have them in one patient-specific folder) versus trying to juggle
different "documents" or even types of documents in one single file.
Especially not in one single Word file ... :-)


So, ... I seek to make multisection headers and footers work. Currently I
am checking out Charles Kenyon's website ideas . So I am trying even and
odd page headers to see if that will resolve my problems of just having
different first page header-footers.

I think by now, you are having a good idea of Word's sections and their
properties. Headers and Footers are one of them. They can (and are by
default) linked (though off the top of my head, I'm not sure what
happens in a document where you have already unlinked H&F and then
insert a section break). Different First (or Odd/Even) Page settings
have specific meanings, and it's not clear to me by observing your
sequence why you'd need either of those properties set in the first place.

Yes, I'm pretty sure you can insert a new section in code by other means
of actually inserting a section break (like, inserting a new section in
the sections collection and setting the sections' properties in one go).
Best place to look for such code would be one of the .vba newsgroups.

I fail to see the benefit in your case, why it would be necessary to
juggle with that in one possibly huge file. What should the file be good
for? As a record? Sounds like a database application.

YMMV
Robert
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