[Terry Farrell]

I won't disagree with you. I've tried to get MS to look into making Section
Breaks more resilient to accidental deletion (a bane for normal users that
won't display non-printing characters). Combining these ideas would solve
many problems.

Terry

PS RAFT format was the spell checker unwontedly changing RTF!

"QSRB" wrote in message
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Thanks, Terry, and point taken about resurrecting and re-using old files.
However, the principle remains that using various headers for drop down
grids
in pricing documents is extremely useful (for example, Preliminaries files
in
Bills of Quantities in the UK) but manipulating lots of Sections could be
made so much more flexible with tabs. Couldn't MS find it in its heart to
look at providing a solution?

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

In many cases, creating a new section just to change the HorFs may be
avoided by using the StyleRef field. For example, if you want running
section/chapter titles to appear in the Header, using the StyleRef field
referencing the section/chapter title style obviates the need for a
section
break. Similarly, using the Contents Controls may also obviate the need
for
section breaks.

But I would also point out that using a document as the base for a new
document repeatedly will eventually build up serious complexity leading
to
corruption. That is why it is best practice to create templates and open
a
new document based on the template. Oft repeated text should be stored as
AutoText (Building Blocks) either with the template or in a global
template
somewhere. Often when a document gets over complex, it is possible to
clean
it up somewhat using the Open and Repair option or by copy all but the
final
paragraph mark into a new blank document. However, the latter solution
does
kill the H&Fs needing them to be recreated (which may not be a bad thing
if
that is causing some problems. Another solution is to use SaveAs and
choose
HTML or RAFT as the format: close the document and then reopen it and use
SaveAs to revert back to docx format.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP