In Microsoft Word headers, how do I enter content that differs on each page without section breaks?

Often, the StyleRef Field will solve this problem. But, it requires that the text be somewhere in the body of the page.

Other than styleref and page numbering fields, fields in headers generally stay constant. You could have the dates as fields in the body of the document, perhaps even placed in Frames or TextBoxes to look like they are in the header. Date calculations and fields can be quite complex. See MVP Paul Edstein's Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial for sample fields to meet various requirements. Please read the introductory material before trying to use any of the fields from the tutorial. You may be able to copy a field from the tutorial and place it in your book.

If in the header, your resulting field would need to be based, to some extent on the page field to get sequential numbering.

Using a section break for each page will make your document a real headache to edit.

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