Inserting document information in the footer

[peter_b]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: Intel I'm creating a template in Word for use in recording the minutes taken from meetings.

My client is being very specific about what they want in this template. One of the things they've asked for is an area in the template where users can enter the name/title of the meeting (I was thinking a textbox/frame?).

However they then want this information repeated in the footer, so that it appears on every page of the minutes.

Is there any way of doing this so the user doesn't have to manually change the information in the footer? Is it possible to put some kind of field in the footer, which somehow links to another field or textbox in the template, so that when the user enters information in one field, it automatically updates the corresponding field in the footer?

Hopefully this can be done natively in Word, without the need for macros or VBA.

Thanks

 

[Peter Jamieson]

None of the methods of doing this kind of thing is entirely satisfactory
but your best bet is probably to define an area/paragraph on the front
page with a particular character or paragraph style, then use a STYLEREF
field in the header(s)/footer(s) to pick up the content of the paragraph.

FWIW I'm not very keen on that and prefer to use a custom Document
Property, then a { DOCPROPERTY } field to insert its value in the
header/footer. Drawbacks include
a. the user has to know how to maintain the custom document property
b. sooner or later this particular type of property will probably be
displaced by the same XML-based "content control" approach used in
Windows Word 2007 and SharePoint.

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk