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Section breaks created from headings
Using Word 2003.
Word should be able to automatically create section breaks based on heading styles. For example, there should be an option to create a section break before every Heading 1. This saves on manually creating section breaks in long documents, such as books, for which users might want different headers/footers for each chapter. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ord.pagelayout |
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The idea of a "Section break before" property similar to the "Page break
before" property has been mooted, but the problem is: What kind of section break should it be? Presumably some kind of "next page" (rather than Continuous), but should it be Next Page, Odd Page, Even Page? It gets complicated. FWIW, you don't need section breaks to have different headers or footers for a given heading; for this you can use the StyleRef field (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm). What you do need a section break for is an empty header/footer on the first page of the chapter, for which you need the First Page Header/Footer. I just completed a book with 50+ chapters (some of them only one or two pages long), and I guarantee that some sort of "Section break before" property would have been a definite boon. I do use a StyleRef field to pick up the chapter title, though, so I don't have to unlink the corresponding headers (I put the author's name in the Even Page Header and chapter title in the Odd Page Header). -- 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. "meow9th" wrote in message ... Using Word 2003. Word should be able to automatically create section breaks based on heading styles. For example, there should be an option to create a section break before every Heading 1. This saves on manually creating section breaks in long documents, such as books, for which users might want different headers/footers for each chapter. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ord.pagelayout |
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Thanks for the tip about the StyleRef field, Suzanne. I didn't know of its
existence heretofore. =) |
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It's very handy. Even when you do need section breaks between chapters
(because you want a different--or no--header or footer on the first page of a chapter), it still saves you from having to unlink the headers/footers and create new ones in each chapter. -- 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. "meow9th" wrote in message ... Thanks for the tip about the StyleRef field, Suzanne. I didn't know of its existence heretofore. =) |
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