[qumranandy]

Thanks, Jean-Guy.
The question isn't how to make dictionary style headers. That I have. The
question is how to get the names to appear in the header when they don't
print on the page. Take "Bigelow" for example. There are 50 insurance
holders with that last name. I get 40 lines per printed page. The
"Bigelows" stretch from the bottom of page 38 to the top of page 40. I don't
want "Bigelow" to appear on every line but rather at the first occurrence
alone - that is near the bottom of page 38. How do I get "Bigelow to
Bigelow" to appear in the header at page 39 when the name "Bigelow" doesn't
appear anywher on the printed page 39? Is there some way of making all the
Bigelows in that left column transparent to the printer, so they don't appear
in the printed list, but nonetheless have them very real to the header
mechanism that searches the left column entries, so that he gets "Bigelow" in
the header despite its transparency to the printer?

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

qumranandy was telling us:
qumranandy nous racontait que :

It's an insurance list. The left column has the last name of the
person. The next column has first name of the person. The final
column has the age. I want the header to give the beginning last name
on the page and the ending last name on the page: "Bigelow to Burr".
In the list itself I don't want "Bigelow" to appear thirty times but
rather only at the first occurrence. That means that 29 times column
one is blank or appears blank when the list is printed. How do I get
column one to be blank most of the time when printed, but despite
that the header registers the correct beginning and ending names on
the page? For instance the printed page may have only one name in the
left column: "Bowman" that appears 1/2 way down, but the header says
"Bigelow to Bowman".

Use STYLEREF fields. Apply a style to the first column, let's say
"LastName".

Then, use the following fields construction:

From {STYLEREF "LastName" } to {STYLEREF "LastName" \l}

The \l switch in the second one will make Word look from the bottom of the
page.

Use CTRL-F9 to insert the pair of {}.

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Jean-Guy Marcil
Montreal, Canada