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JohnActuaryPresident03
Copper Contributor
Mar 25, 2023

Section Breaks, Page Breaks and Watermarks

Hi, Here is my problem:   I am creating a Word doc that has several Sections.   1.  If I use Page Breaks to separate the sections, the headers for each page are automatically linked.  If I now i...
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Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
MVP
Mar 26, 2023

JohnActuaryPresident03 Let's get the terminology correct!

 

Page Breaks separate pages, not Sections.

 

Section Breaks of which there are the following types

Next Page

Continuous

Even Page

Odd Page

separate the document into Sections with the start of the Section following the break being of the type indicated by the name of the Section Break.

 

If you want a mixture of constant content (the DRAFT watermark) and varying content in the Header of Footer, you may be able to achieve that by the use of a STYLEREF field for the varying content, in which case, it may not even be necessary to insert Section Breaks.

 

However, if the varying content does not lend itself to being displayed by the use of STYLEREF fields so that you do need to use multiple Sections with their Headers\Footers unlinked, then the only option is to insert the DRAFT watermark into each of the Sections of the document in which you want it to appear.

 

For information on the use of STYLEREF fields, see:

 

http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/StyleRef.htm