Linking Text

[Danny]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am trying to create a document with a cover page and several subsequent pages. Ideally, the cover page would have required areas for entering data about items in the report. Is there a way to take text from the required areas of the cover page and have the text automatically appear in the header / footer of the subsequent pages?

Any help would be appreciated!

Danny

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Danny:

Two ways:

REF fields or StyleRef fields. The Word 2008 help is completely useless on
the subject. Look them up in the Word 2003 help here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051893981033.aspx

And here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051861391033.aspx

You can bookmark your text items and use REF fields to replicate them
wherever you like.

Or you can use Styles on your text and use StyleRef fields to do the same
thing. The StyleRef method is much simpler and more reliable: users are not
likely to break styles the way they break bookmarks.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am trying to create a document with a cover page and several subsequent
pages. Ideally, the cover page would have required areas for entering data
about items in the report. Is there a way to take text from the required areas
of the cover page and have the text automatically appear in the header /
footer of the subsequent pages?

Any help would be appreciated!

Danny

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Danny]

Thanks for the information John.