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Subject:RE: Another Word question From:"Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com, zenizenc -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:41:02 -0400
This is a great suggestion, Joel. This is the most common cause of
problems with STYLEREF fields. STYLEREF picks up the first instance
of the style on the current page, or the last preceding instance if it
the style is not present on the current page. Having a second, empty
instance of the style would produce exactly the behavior Zen describes
(the field working properly on the first page but not on subsequent
pages).
Use Find to search for every instance of the the specific style name
in the document (you'll find Style under the Formatting menu when
you click the More button in the Find/Replace dialog) and make sure
that only the actual chapter title is assigned to the Heading 1 style.
-Fred Ridder
>From: "Wilhelm, Joel" <jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com>
>To: "Zen C" <zenizenc -at- yahoo -dot- com>,<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: Another Word question
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:46:52 -0400
>
>Zen,
>
>You may have something tagged with "Heading 1" that the header is
>picking up. I created a style called "Chapter" and inserted a header
>like you did. Some of my pages showed blank headers. The reason was that
>I had a blank line after my chapter title that was tagged with my
>"Chapter" tag. Once I re-tagged this blank line as something else, the
>header functioned properly. Not sure if this is what you are seeing or
>not.
>
>Joel
>
>
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>Behalf Of Zen C
>Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 9:14 PM
>To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Another Word question
>
>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to create a word template where it automatically takes in
>the Chapter name in to the header of the document. It is designed in
>such way that a header is not inserted in the first page, but only in
>the rest of the pages of the chapter.
>
>I inserted the header in the 2nd page with Insert-Field-Styleref-Heading
>1(Chapter heading style). When I try to insert the for rest of the pages
>it does not insert the header, but when I toggle the pages it shows the
>link as {.Style Ref "Heading 1".}.
>
>Can all the word gurus help me please.
>
>Zen
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