Revision dates

[liveapoem]

Hi,
I am producing a Manua in which I want to put a revision date at the bottom
of each page, so that in the future, as an item on a particular page is
amended, the revision date at the bottom of the page is also amended.
Footnotes are not applicable.
I tried putting a box with with the notation: "Rev. March 17, 2007" (e.g.),
but whenever I add to, or remove data from the page, this box moves around. I
want it to stay always in one place at the bottom of the page, so that
whenever I amend the body of the page, this revision date does not move.
Any ideas.
Thanks.
Ray

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word is not a page layput application. There is little concept of what
constitutes a 'page'. Documents are flowed on 'pages' according to the
dictates of the formatting and the current printer driver. This makes it
very difficult to do what you envisage. You could either create each 'page'
as a section and have a unique footer, or you could create each 'page' as a
document and use INCLUDETEXT fields to insert the documents into a binder
document.

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[Hodag72lkh]

I too would like a revision date on the individual pages updated, however I'd
also like this document paginated ie Page 59 of 239. Can I have both in the
footer?

Laurie

 

[Graham Mayor]

I assume that yoiu read my previous reply given that you quoted it. What you
ask is not possible. Word is not a page layout application. The pages cannot
be treated as individual entities. Word documents are treated as a whole.
You can certainly page number the footer but you cannot put the date in the
footer. You could put the date on the text area of the page itself eg in a
bordeless frame in the footer area of the document (though not *in* the
footer view) and anchored to the page. How stable this will be in practice
when previous pages are edited causing the text to reflow, I hesitate to
say.

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