Re: Word SEQ field question

["Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM>]

Beth,

You didn't mention what version of Word you are using.

With Word 8, you can use a new field, DocVariable, to do what you want.

With Word 6 and 7, you can use the File, Summary Info screen to save a
few pieces of information (assuming you're not using those items for
their intended purpose <g>), and then put them in your document using a
Document Information field.

HTH.

Carl Bergerson
Mission Viejo
Product Information
carl -dot- bergerson -at- unisys -dot- com

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> From:         Beth Friedman[SMTP:bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM]
> Sent:         Monday, March 02, 1998 1:27 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Word SEQ field question
>
> In our previous episode, Walter Hanig said:
>
> > Is there a specific reason for using a SEQ field to accomplish the
> > reference? I suggest you select the {SEQ app \r 1 \* Alphabetic}
> > field and define it as a bookmark. Then you can just use {REF
> > bookmarkname} to refer to it. If you have multiple chapters or
> > appendices in the same file, you'll need to define a unique
> > bookmarkname for each chapter number and appendix letter.
>
> I'm having a similar problem, I think.  I need to get changing text
> into a header.  The usual way would be with a styleref field, but
> there isn't any place that the text that would be referenced is used.
> I was thinking I could create a style in the document that was defined
> as hidden text, and that works.  Unfortunately, the text in the
> styleref field shows up as hidden as well, unless I define the
> paragraph in the document as un-hidden, which loses the whole point of
> the exercise.
>
> Any ideas?  I don't want to have to start fiddling with ASK fields if
> I don't have to when Styleref is so elegant.
>
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> Beth Friedman                                       bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
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