sections/same as previous command

[Phil]

Hello

I am trying to add different text to sections. I can add the section number
in the footers but cannot get the footers to contain different text.

There has to be a way to do this. I've googled the hell out of it but can't
find out how to do this.

I'm trying to change that annoying "Same as the Previous command" but can't
for the life of me figure it out.

Thanks.

ps

 

[Stefan Blom]

Each section can have up to three different headers and three different
footers (if you enabled both "Different first page" and "Different odd and
even" in the Page Setup dialog box). Each type of header and each type of
footer must be separately unlinked from its neighbor in the preceding
section.

Also, note that as you add a section break, the Same as Previous option will
be enabled for each header and footer in the newly created section.

 

[Phil]

Thanks, Stefan.

Maybe I should have mentioned that I have Word 2007. I can't find the
traditional page setup options. Any other tips?

Thanks,

ps

 

[Stefan Blom]

On the Page Layout tab, click the dialog launcher button (the little arrow
on the bottom right) of the Page Setup group; Word will display the familiar
Page Setup dialog box.

 

[Phil]

That little arrow? Wow...not exactly obvious.

Thanks, man.

ps

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But note that it is not necessary to access the Page Setup dialog in Word
2007 because the "Different first page" and "Different odd and even"
settings are on the contextual Header and Footer Tools Design tab that
appears when you are working in the header or footer. The Link to Previous
button is a toggle; when it appears dimmed, it is turned OFF.

 

[Phil]

Thanks, Suzanne.

I am wondering if there are any templates out there with the customized
sections already populated. I am writing a book and would love to see how
people have done this.

Thanks,

ps

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If this is a book, you may not need to unlink the sections. If the text
that is to be different is something in the text itself (such as a chapter
title), you can use a StyleRef field to pick it up. You will probably still
want to have section breaks (Next Page or Odd Page) between chapters so that
you can use "Different first page" to omit a header on the first page of a
chapter, but using StyleRef keeps you from having to manually enter the text
in each header (and allows you to leave them linked, as well).

Book layout can vary considerably, but what I usually do, just for
simplicity, is use a centered drop folio (page number in the footer) on
every page. The First Page Header is blank, and the Even Page Header and Odd
Page Header have Book Title and Chapter Title (if any) or Book Title and
Author Name, also centered. In one book that was a collection of letters (no
chapter titles), I used a StyleRef field to pick up the date of the first
letter on the page.

Occasionally I'll put page numbers in the headers (outside) with the running
heads aligned to the inside, or I might align the running heads to the
outside and have the page number, also Outside, in the footer. It just
depends on the book. Note that if you choose Outside alignment for page
numbers in the footer, then you need to make all chapter starts either even
or odd so that you can replicate the Outside placement of the page number in
the First Page Footer.

As for templates, have you looked at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm?

 

[Phil]

Suzanne

I don't like to use the word 'hero', but you are the greatest hero living in
America today.

ps

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I prefer the term "goddess." <g>

 

[Stefan Blom]

But note that it is not necessary to access the Page Setup dialog in Word

2007 because the "Different first page" and "Different odd and even"
settings are on the contextual Header and Footer Tools Design tab that
appears when you are working in the header or footer.

Good point.