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RE: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03
Subject:RE: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03 From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:56:59 -0400
Since "Same as Previous" is the default setting, any header or footer
with "Same as Previous" disabled has been set that way by the user. Word
shouldn't *automatically* reset them to "Same as Previous" every time
you update the field. That's a bug, darn it.
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmbrown
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Indexing a 212-page tech document using WORD '03
>
> I think you misunderstood. The { INDEX } field includes two
> section breaks of its own. It's *those* that I assume are
> being set to Same as Previous.
> That's a good thing, because I've already set up the
> enclosing section the way I want it, and I wouldn't want Word
> to arbitrarily decide what my headers and footers should look
> like *within* that section.
> On the other hand, maybe *I* misunderstood. Maybe it was the
> *enclosing* headers and footers that were being reset, which
> would be a bad thing for precisely the same reason.
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