Don't go the a) it's a hell of a nuisance to set up, b) it makes your
document *very* hard to manage, and c) readers couldn't care less.

The problem is that in a normal document, "page" is a nebulous concept. In
the absence of hard-coded breaks, your document re-paginates continually,
affected by quantity of content, style changes, and the vagaries of the
active printer. To make the footers page-specific, you have to treat each
page as a separate entity, bounded by next-page section breaks. Which makes
the document a nightmare to edit.





"mhutch71" wrote in message
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I have a large doc that has footers on it to show the creation date. I am
doing changes to the doc and need to show which pages were changed and
which
pages stayed the same. Would like to show that by having the date in the
footer reflect the date the information was changed on that page.