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Use the STYLEREF field code.
My header field codes look like this:
{STYLEREF "Heading name" \* MERGEFORMAT}
Include the quotes for the heading name.
At 12:37 PM 1/24/00 -0800, Becca Price wrote:
>I know that there's a field code you can put in a
>running header and it will display the name of
>whatever the current heading is, based on the level
>you've specified in the field code.
>
>what I can't remember is what it is, and the MS Word
>help file is being singularly unhelpful.
>
>I'm using Word 97 SR2 in Windows NT.
>
>-Becca
Mitchell Gibbs
Technical Writer
Advantage Software, Inc.
