Side Headers?

[qbcannon]

Is there n option to create a side header in word 2007, or something to give
me the option to write in the left margin? I cant figure it out to save my
life.

 

[margilowry]

While we're waiting for an MVP to see this - I don't know of a "side header,"
per se, but you could use the Text Box functionality to create text in your
left margin.

Just go to Insert > Text Box - and you can use the built-ins or configure
it yourself.

HTH!
ml

 

[Beth Melton]

No need to wait -- your answer is what I'd recommend, even taking a look at
the sidebar examples in Text Box gallery on the Insert tab.

I think "sidebar" is what "qbcannon" is referring to anyway.

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[qbcannon]

Thanx to both of you, it certainly was my answer. My professor referred to it
as a Side Header so i was mislead. Thanx again.

 

[Beth Melton]

FWIW, I'm not sure "side header" is wrong, I've only heard it referred to as
sidebar.

Glad to hear you found what you were looking for whatever it should be
called. ;-)


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[grammatim]

A sidebar would be some text -- at least a paragraph -- of related but
extraneous material, often with a border around it and/or a background
fill color.

A sidehead would be a header that's in the margin instead of over the
text.

No reason Word would think of them as different things; they'd simply
get formatted with different styles.

Recall also the recent discussion of Frames as well as Text Boxes.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually a sidehead is just one that's flush left as opposed to centered; it
need not extend into the margin. And we need to be clear whether we're
discussing headings here (a sidehead is a heading) or headers; for headers
in the margin, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/AnchorToHeader.htm.

Interestingly, however, if you google for "sidehead," one of the first hits
is http://www.2minuteexplainer.com/articles/020_sideheads.html which appears
to be based on one of my NG posts and describes the technique outlined in
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

A sidebar would be some text -- at least a paragraph -- of related but
extraneous material, often with a border around it and/or a background
fill color.

A sidehead would be a header that's in the margin instead of over the
text.

No reason Word would think of them as different things; they'd simply
get formatted with different styles.

Recall also the recent discussion of Frames as well as Text Boxes.

 

[grammatim]

I haven't encountered that use of "sidehead." The term used at the U
of Chicago Press for what I'm talking about is "shoulder head." (The
design of subheads is entirely up to the designer.) This from the
Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. sec. 1.74:

"Subheads, except the lowest level, are each set on a line separate
from the following text, the levels differentiated by type style and
placement. The lowest level is often run in at the beginning of a
paragraph, usually set in italics and followed by a period. It is then
referred to as a run-in subhead (or run-in sidehead)."

Incidentally, FrameMaker can do run-in subheads as an ordinary feature
of any paragraph style; I haven't looked to see whether Word can? I
used that feature once to make dozens of two-word footnotes (they were
grammatical notes on individual words in a text) all appear to run
together as a single large paragraph.

(It would have been nice if Word had called "headers and footers"
"Running Heads" and "Running Feet" like everyone else, to forestall
confusion.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"Run-in sidehead" is the phrase where I've most often heard the term used,
as well. As for making them, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

I haven't encountered that use of "sidehead." The term used at the U
of Chicago Press for what I'm talking about is "shoulder head." (The
design of subheads is entirely up to the designer.) This from the
Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. sec. 1.74:

"Subheads, except the lowest level, are each set on a line separate
from the following text, the levels differentiated by type style and
placement. The lowest level is often run in at the beginning of a
paragraph, usually set in italics and followed by a period. It is then
referred to as a run-in subhead (or run-in sidehead)."

Incidentally, FrameMaker can do run-in subheads as an ordinary feature
of any paragraph style; I haven't looked to see whether Word can? I
used that feature once to make dozens of two-word footnotes (they were
grammatical notes on individual words in a text) all appear to run
together as a single large paragraph.

(It would have been nice if Word had called "headers and footers"
"Running Heads" and "Running Feet" like everyone else, to forestall
confusion.)

 

[grammatim]

Hmm. I'm glad I don't like run-in subheads. FrameMaker definitely wins
this round! But it's nice to know how to do it in case I ever have to.