Funny you should mention conditional fields, Tony!
When I couldn't get the header to work right I thought I'd try some of my
"newfound knowledge" (I guess it was too soon to call it knowledge!) and put
a conditional header on it. I quickly abandoned that idea, but maybe I
didn't completely get rid of what I had started to do.
By the way, Tony, I would appreciate your answering a question for me:
Let's say I have a document that has 50 pages in it. Other people are at
times adding and/or deleting pages. But let's say that on what is now page
35 I always want a certain header to be on that page as well as the three
following pages. Other than a section break, is there a conditional field
way of indicating that no matter who adds or deletes a page, I always want a
certain page header to be on that particular page and the two that follow it?
In other words, is there a field that says "this physical page, no matter
where it falls?"
As you can tell, I just love trying to do things that I really don't fully
understand. When they sometimes work, though, it just encourages me to keep
trying! And with your help and that of the others in this wonderful
discussion group, I will always keep trying!
"Tony Jollans" wrote:
I don't know if this will help or even if it's relevant but if you have
different first page headers and footers and continuous section breaks it is
possible that they don't display in sections other than the first because
the first page of continuous sections start in earlier sections and have the
header and footer of the earlier section. That doesn't explain a sudden
appearance by itself but if you have deleted a section break it could.
Other possibilities are more involved; conditional fields, for example. It
is certainly worth looking at actual, rather than just visible, content - of
all headers, whether actually shown on any physical page or not.
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Enjoy,
Tony
"Island Girl" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply, Tony. I had a chuckle about my "fixing" the
sections.
I was very careful to make sure that each new section was not linked to
the
previous one and since there were sections before and after Section 11
that
were working well--at least when I scrolled through them immediately after
"fixing" the sections, I just couldn't figure out how in the world the
very
first page of the document could have been affected.
I'm going to spend part of today reading everything I can find about
sections. I'll let you know if something "dawns" on me.
Thanks again, Tony.
"Tony Jollans" wrote:
I don't know how much of a grasp on Sections you had but nothing you do
in
Section 11 should affect Section 1. The only possibility I can think of
is
that, while editing in Section 11, you changed a Document setting that
affected Section 1; it is not always clear which settings are Section
settings and which are Document ones - for example "Different Odd and
Even
page headers". It may also not be immediately obvious which Section's
Headers you are editing if you switch Views.
Beyond that fairly general note, all I can do is guess as I'm afraid your
use of the term "fix" does not describe what you did. Can you post more
specific details?
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Enjoy,
Tony
"Island Girl" wrote in message
news
Yesterday someone asked for my help on a document which had 13 section
breaks
containing exhibits. I was able to repair all but the 11th section,
the
three-page content of which was in .jpg format. I was just wondering
if
that
had anything at all to do with the fact that nothing I tried to do in
that
section worked. After €śfixing€ť the 11th section it looked correct
while
scrolling through the exhibit sections. The next thing I knew the very
first
page (title page) of the document had an €śExhibit A€ť header. Id fix
it,
look through it, the exhibit pages would look fine, and then----same ol
story: €śExhibit A€ť header on the first page. Have I lost entirely my
grasp
on sections or could the picture content have anything to do with it?
Should
I find another career?
Thanks so much for all of your help in the past, present--and most
certainly€”the future!