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Tim Tucker
I'm trying to figure out how to place text in a header based on a
StyleRef, but I can't seem to come up with a way to get the results that
I want.
I managed to find a post from over a year ago that came close to what I
wanted, however the solution given doesn't work quite as well as I'd like:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=2&prev=/&frame=on
I have data that looks like the following:
Item A (Style 1)
Description for Item A (Style 2)
Type X (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Y (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Z (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Item B (Style 1)
Description for Item B (Style 2)
Type X (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Y (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
As an example, if the header for Item A, Type Z is split across two
pages, I need the following to appear at the top of page 2:
Item A (Style 1)
Description for Item A (Style 2)
Type Z (Style 3)
If I use a StyleRef, however, and Item B begins on the same page as the
end of Item A, the header will be based on Item B.
The second issue here is that if an Item or Type starts at the beginning
of the page, the information for it is shown twice -- once in the body
and once in the header. I need it to only display once.
To make things slighly more confusing, I'm trying to do all this using
WordML and XML transformations on a 10,000 item Filemaker database (with
about 100 different types of Items, each of which has anywhere from 1-5
different types).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Or am I going in completely the wrong
direction here to be trying to generate a complex catalog in Word?
(I'd try Publisher, but I couldn't seem to figure out how to deal with a
hierarchy of items rather than just displaying all the records from a
file -- I could probably do it if I were to generate a separate csv file
for each combination of item and type and then manually do a catalog
merge for each of those, but it doesn't seem like generating several
hundred files and importing them one at a time is the solution)
Tim Tucker
(e-mail address removed)
StyleRef, but I can't seem to come up with a way to get the results that
I want.
I managed to find a post from over a year ago that came close to what I
wanted, however the solution given doesn't work quite as well as I'd like:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=2&prev=/&frame=on
I have data that looks like the following:
Item A (Style 1)
Description for Item A (Style 2)
Type X (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Y (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Z (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Item B (Style 1)
Description for Item B (Style 2)
Type X (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
Type Y (Style 3)
----- | -----
----- | ----- (two column table)
----- | -----
As an example, if the header for Item A, Type Z is split across two
pages, I need the following to appear at the top of page 2:
Item A (Style 1)
Description for Item A (Style 2)
Type Z (Style 3)
If I use a StyleRef, however, and Item B begins on the same page as the
end of Item A, the header will be based on Item B.
The second issue here is that if an Item or Type starts at the beginning
of the page, the information for it is shown twice -- once in the body
and once in the header. I need it to only display once.
To make things slighly more confusing, I'm trying to do all this using
WordML and XML transformations on a 10,000 item Filemaker database (with
about 100 different types of Items, each of which has anywhere from 1-5
different types).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Or am I going in completely the wrong
direction here to be trying to generate a complex catalog in Word?
(I'd try Publisher, but I couldn't seem to figure out how to deal with a
hierarchy of items rather than just displaying all the records from a
file -- I could probably do it if I were to generate a separate csv file
for each combination of item and type and then manually do a catalog
merge for each of those, but it doesn't seem like generating several
hundred files and importing them one at a time is the solution)
Tim Tucker
(e-mail address removed)