Heading Field Help Please!

[Guest]

Fellow Forum Members,
I am half way done with a technical manual I'm working on using WORD 2003.
It contains close to 2,500 headings. The military specification requires that
all these headings be underlined and end with a PERIOD that is not
underlined. This sounds easy but it's turning out to be very challenging.

Is there anyway to add a field at the end of all the headings (levels 2-6)
that will automatically take care of adding none underlined periods located
right at the end of underlined headings? I will really appreciate any ideas
on how to accomplish such a trick.

In addition I have tried the Find & Replace approach to get PERIODS without
underlines and it works. The reason I don't like this approach is because you
end up with two sets of styles for all headings as shown below:

Heading 2 (supports heading underline)
Style Heading 2 + No underline (supports heading period with no underline)

I want to avoid creating additional heading styles to support none
underlined periods therefore the find and replace approach is not a viable
solution for this problem.

I will greatly appreciate it if anyone can show me a way to solve this
problem using a field located at the end of a heading.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Binar

Fellow Forum Members,
I am half way done with a technical manual I'm working on using WORD 2003.
It contains close to 2,500 headings. The military specification requires that
all these headings be underlined and end with a PERIOD that is not
underlined. This sounds easy but it's turning out to be very challenging.

you don't want us to comment on this military specification, do you ...? ;-)

Is there anyway to add a field at the end of all the headings (levels 2-6)
that will automatically take care of adding none underlined periods located
right at the end of underlined headings? I will really appreciate any ideas
on how to accomplish such a trick.

In addition I have tried the Find & Replace approach to get PERIODS without
underlines and it works. The reason I don't like this approach is because you
end up with two sets of styles for all headings as shown below:

Heading 2 (supports heading underline)
Style Heading 2 + No underline (supports heading period with no underline)

I want to avoid creating additional heading styles to support none
underlined periods therefore the find and replace approach is not a viable
solution for this problem.

I will greatly appreciate it if anyone can show me a way to solve this
problem using a field located at the end of a heading.

You are not in fact creating an additional style; rather, Word is
showing you formatting as a style. You can select what the style task
pane shall show in the bottom.

HTH
Robert