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Sherra 3/9/2007 7:29 AM PST
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  When printing a merged document from a database, I loose the information in
my headers and footers that pulls from the database. The main document is
fine and prints well. But the headers and footers resort to the chevron merge
fields. Please advise.
 
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Graham Mayor 3/9/2007 11:37 PM PST
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  The header and footer is a transient area that runs through the document,
whereas the records themselves relate only to the page on which they appear,
so mergefields in the header are unlikely to work. You should however be
able to reproduce information from the page into the header using Styleref
fields.

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Sherra wrote:
> When printing a merged document from a database, I loose the
> information in my headers and footers that pulls from the database.
> The main document is fine and prints well. But the headers and
> footers resort to the chevron merge fields. Please advise.


 
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Sherra 3/11/2007 8:53 PM PST
   
  Can you explain the Styleref field comment further? I think this might be
exactly what i need.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

> The header and footer is a transient area that runs through the document,
> whereas the records themselves relate only to the page on which they appear,
> so mergefields in the header are unlikely to work. You should however be
> able to reproduce information from the page into the header using Styleref
> fields.
>
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> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>
> Sherra wrote:
> > When printing a merged document from a database, I loose the
> > information in my headers and footers that pulls from the database.
> > The main document is fine and prints well. But the headers and
> > footers resort to the chevron merge fields. Please advise.
>
>
>
 
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Graham Mayor 3/11/2007 10:33 PM PST
   
  Styleref repeats the content of the first (or last) content of a paragraph
on a page, to which an identified style has been applied. It is documented
in Word help!

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Sherra wrote:
> Can you explain the Styleref field comment further? I think this
> might be exactly what i need.
>
> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>
>> The header and footer is a transient area that runs through the
>> document, whereas the records themselves relate only to the page on
>> which they appear, so mergefields in the header are unlikely to
>> work. You should however be able to reproduce information from the
>> page into the header using Styleref fields.
>>
>> --
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>>
>> My web site www.gmayor.com
>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>>
>> Sherra wrote:
>>> When printing a merged document from a database, I loose the
>>> information in my headers and footers that pulls from the database.
>>> The main document is fine and prints well. But the headers and
>>> footers resort to the chevron merge fields. Please advise.


 
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