[endless]

I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us work! I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next. Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not looking forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word Help - it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they give advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but it's unavoidable whenever I use this program!

[Peter T. Daniels]

You can use Find-Replace to remove all the existing section breaks.
Just open the pane (Ctrl-H), go to "More" and then "Special," and
scroll down to "Section Break" (or simply type ^b in the Find box).
Leave the Replace box empty, and click "Replace All."

Then you can follow my instructions for inserting your handful of
section breaks (if every page needs a different running head, you
shouldn't be using running heads in the first place).

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. (There, I've probably run
out of aphorisms.)

On Jul 31, 6:43*pm, endless wrote:
I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and
your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us work!
I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next.
Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not looking
forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word Help
- it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their
instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they give
advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but it's
unavoidable whenever I use this program!

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endless

[endless]

Perhaps I am a poor workman, that's why I rely on Word's tools, but as I've said, the Help tool is not helpful. If it were, websites like this wouldn't need to exist.
By the way, what's a "running head"?

Originally Posted by Peter T. Daniels

You can use Find-Replace to remove all the existing section breaks.
Just open the pane (Ctrl-H), go to "More" and then "Special," and
scroll down to "Section Break" (or simply type ^b in the Find box).
Leave the Replace box empty, and click "Replace All."

Then you can follow my instructions for inserting your handful of
section breaks (if every page needs a different running head, you
shouldn't be using running heads in the first place).

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. (There, I've probably run
out of aphorisms.)

On Jul 31, 6:43*pm, endless wrote:
I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and
your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us work!
I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next.
Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not looking
forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word Help
- it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their
instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they give
advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but it's
unavoidable whenever I use this program!

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endless

[Peter T. Daniels]

The thing at the top of each page (Word calls it a "header") that has
the title of the book, the title of the chapter, or the author's name,
and the page number, which "run" the same through the whole book or
the whole chapter.

On Aug 1, 2:11*pm, endless wrote:
Perhaps I am a poor workman, that's why I rely on Word's tools, but as
I've said, the Help tool is not helpful. If it were, websites like this
wouldn't need to exist.
By the way, what's a "running head"?

Peter T. Daniels;492978 Wrote:





You can use Find-Replace to remove all the existing section breaks.
Just open the pane (Ctrl-H), go to "More" and then "Special," and
scroll down to "Section Break" (or simply type ^b in the Find box).
Leave the Replace box empty, and click "Replace All."

Then you can follow my instructions for inserting your handful of
section breaks (if every page needs a different running head, you
shouldn't be using running heads in the first place).

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. (There, I've probably run
out of aphorisms.)

On Jul 31, 6:43*pm, endless wrote:-
I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and
your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us
work!
I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next.
Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not
looking
forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word
Help
- it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their
instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they
give
advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but
it's
unavoidable whenever I use this program!

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

You have sort of been working against Word, rather than along side with it,
which will be time-consuming. :-(

It seems clear that you don't really need all these sections, so you can delete
them as Peter suggested, and continue from there. You could use the following
macro to automate the unlinking for you (for assistance, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm). Note, however, that you'd have to
run it again if you add more sections (as headers/footers in new sections will
always be linked to their "neighbors" in the preceding section).

Sub UnlinkCurrentHeadersFooters()
Dim s As Section
For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterEvenPages).LinkToPrevious = False
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).LinkToPrevious = False
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).LinkToPrevious = False

s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterEvenPages).LinkToPrevious = False
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).LinkToPrevious = False
s.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).LinkToPrevious = False
Next s
End Sub

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




"endless" wrote in message ...

I appreciate everyone's suggestions. But I have a 60-page document and
your suggestions will take hours. So much for computers saving us work!
I also have a 500-page document that will need to be worked on next.
Needless to say, that might take the rest of my life and I'm not looking
forward to it. My real issue with this is that - according to Word Help
- it shouldn't be necessary to go through these steps. Their
instructions are much simpler, but they don't work. Why would they give
advice that doesn't work? I know that hatred isn't productive, but it's
unavoidable whenever I use this program!




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endless