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Unusual Header Form in MS Word

Nov 8, 2004 11:24PM PST

It is needed to place a header in MS Word 2003 document which would have a non-rectange form. Putting header is not obligatory, but the text which is to be at the top and right part of the page, has to be repeated on every page.
The form of header is to be as follows:
|-----------------------|
|HeaderHeader|
|-----------|Header|
|Docum|Header|
|Docum|Header|
|Docum--------------|
|DocumentDocum|
|DocumentDocum|
|DocumentDocum|
|--------------------------|

As it was mentioned above, the part "Header" should be repeated on every page, while "Text" part is the text itself and, of corse, is unique for every page.
Thank you in advance.

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Re: Unusual Header Form in MS Word
Nov 8, 2004 11:42PM PST

I'm afraid you need to do some formatting yourself.
1. Make two rectangular textboxes with the 'page header', a small one at the left, and a large one at the right.
2. Add a "new page" at the bottom and copy-paste the textboxes to the next page.
3. Repeat step 2 until your document has the right amount of pages.
4. Then carefully fill each page, starting with page 1. Note you'll have to do a LOT of copy/paste if you decide to add text to a page later on, because that might give rise to a new page 2 without your carefully prepared header.

Hope this helps.


Kees

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Re: Unusual Header Form in MS Word
Nov 8, 2004 11:51PM PST

I've seen this in Page Maker, FrameMaker and other typesetting programs, but for such "work" I've confounded some by a very cheap trick which I'll share. I double printed the paper. On the first print I printed the items that I couldn't quickly figure out how to print in the first all-in-one document and put the paper back into the printer for the final printing.

Later I found some newhire had been toiling away for a month trying to get Word to reproduce that document. They watched in horror as I did the two pass printing...

Sometimes you can get a little creative with such if you are pressed for time.

Bob