[Tiddy McNipples[_2_]]

Is it at all possible to create a custom header in Word, based on some sort
of criteria on the corresponding page. For instance, lets take an
automatically generated report that contains data for 100 people, each
person's report could be between 1 and 5 pages long (total document could be
500 pages long), but somewhere on the first page of each section would appear
"Name: Last, First". Is there a way to search for the string: "Name:" and
take anything that appears on that line after the colon and insert it, along
with a code or string of text, into the header for that section.

For example:

line in document= Name: Doe, John

Header= Here is the section for Doe, John

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you looked at the StyleRef field (see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Tiddy McNipples" wrote in
message ...
Is it at all possible to create a custom header in Word, based on some
sort
of criteria on the corresponding page. For instance, lets take an
automatically generated report that contains data for 100 people, each
person's report could be between 1 and 5 pages long (total document could
be
500 pages long), but somewhere on the first page of each section would
appear
"Name: Last, First". Is there a way to search for the string: "Name:"
and
take anything that appears on that line after the colon and insert it,
along
with a code or string of text, into the header for that section.

For example:

line in document= Name: Doe, John

Header= Here is the section for Doe, John