Portrait and Landscape Headers and Footers

[BekkiM]

I have a document that has many section breaks so that I can include both
portrait and landscape portions in the same document. I have a standard
Header that includes basic document information (Title, Subject, Last
Modified, and Version) that's formatted (with tabs) to stretch across the top
of the page:

[Left Margin] TITLE [Right-Tab] VERSION [Right Margin]
[Left Margin] SUBJECT [Right-Tab] MODIFIED DATE [Right Margin]

I pull Title, Subject, and Modified in from Word Fields (and presumably they
auto-update--but that's another issue), but Version is straight text b/c I
only want to update it when I publish the document, not each time I modify it.

My question is: Is there anyway to set up my Header so the right-justified
text is always relative to the margin (whether I'm in the portrait or
landscape section)?

Right now, I've got two styles defined: Header and Header Landscape which
means that every time I add a new section, I have to go in, turn off "Same as
Previous" and update the style to the correct version. In addition, b/c
"Same as Previous" is turned off, when I update my Version number, I have to
manually update it in every section.

I hope this makes sense and that someone can help me. :)

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can create a two-column borderless table and left-align the left column
and right-align the right column. If you set the table width to 100%, it
should adjust. Note, however, that this causes Word to have to do a lot of
paddling under the water, which may be reflected in the header shivering
like a jelly.

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Words into Type
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[BekkiM]

I'm trying to incorporate your suggestion (which makes a lot of sense to me),
but unless I turn off "Same as Previous", the table stretches to landscape
size, even in my portrait sections. This defeats my goal of only having to
insert the version number once--I still end up going into every section and
updating the version number.

Maybe this is a field problem. If I create a custom field, can I get it to
automatically update in the header when I update its value?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm confused. The table should be conforming to 100% of the margin width in
every header, whether portrait or landscape. And yes, if you want to use a
field for the version number, you'll need to define a custom document
property and use a DocProperty field to insert it.

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Words into Type
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[BekkiM]

I'm confused too. :) The functionality certainly looks like it should
behave the way you described, but it doesn't seem to be working on my
machine. Maybe I'm missing a patch?

At any rate, thanks for the help. I've decided to get around the problem
altogether by right-justifying everything (instead of my fancy mix of left
and right) which carries through the various sections just fine. Sometimes
the old-fashioned approach is probably the best! :)

Thanks again!

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I just tried it here, and the header, inserted on a portrait page and
set to 100%, does extend to the landscape with in a landscape section, but
then when I go back to the portrait section, it's expanded there, too, so
evidently it *doesn't* work as expected.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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