Footer for one page only

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saturnin02

WIN XP HE, Word 2002
Hi,
How do I insert a footer to appear on ONLY one specific page of a long
document?
Tx,
S
 
You could do this by isolating the "specific" with section
breaks before and after the page. However, I would do it
with an IF PAGE and PAGEREF field. Bookmark some text on
the "specific" page. Lets call the bookmark SpecPage.

Put this field in the footer:

{IF{PAGE}={PAGEREF SpecPage}"Your footer text"}
 
Greg, Tx for your suggestion.
How do I actually enter the fields properly {IF{PAGE}={PAGEREF
SpecPage}"Your footer text"}and "activate" them? Don't I need to use some F
keys or something?
Sorry, I haven't done this for a long time....
S
 
saturnin02 said:
WIN XP HE, Word 2002
Hi,
How do I insert a footer to appear on ONLY one specific page of a long
document?
Tx,
S
Click to expand...

Two ways:

- Insert section breaks at the start and end of that page. With the cursor
between the section breaks, open the header/footer area and go to the
footer. On the H&F toolbar, click the Same As Previous button to turn off
that linkage. Click the Next button on the toolbar to get to the following
section's footer, and again turn off Same As Previous. Click the Previous
button to get back to the section between the breaks, and insert the desired
footer text. Close the H&F pane.

- Alternatively, if the document is complete and the pagination won't
change: Don't bother with section breaks. Open the (only) footer on any
page. Insert a Page field. Type the additional items to make it look like
this (I'm showing the field code for the Page field, but you'll see a page
number):

IF {PAGE} = 123 "Show this text"

but type the number of the desired page instead of 123, and type your
desired text within the quotes. Now select the whole expression and press
Ctrl+F9, which turns it into a single field. The desired text will appear
only on the page whose number you typed.

There's a variant of the second method in which you place a bookmark
anywhere on the desired page, and then replace the page number in the field
with yet another field, a PageRef field that contains the bookmark's name.
For example, if you call the bookmark FooterHere then the footer should
contain

{IF {PAGE} = {PAGEREF FooterHere} "Show this text"}

This will work even when the pagination changes, but be careful not to
delete the bookmark while editing.
 
Enter the field boundaries {} with CTRL+F9 and type the bits between them.
Press ALT+F9 to toggle the display and F9 to update.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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You must Insert, Section Break, Continuous, before and after the page
the footer is to be on. (Turn on Show/Hide button to see the breaks.)
You'll end up with a section one, two, and three. Then click the page
to hold the footer and click View, Header Footer, switch between
Header Footer, and turn off "Same as Previous" or "Link to Previous".
(It's a button on the Header Footer toolbar.) Do this in section two
and three. Now click onto the page to hold the footer, and click into
the footer area, type your footer. Print preview to confirm it
worked. If it's landed on a page you don't want, make sure you've
turned off "Same as Previous" or "Link to Previous" from the Header
Footer toolbar on that page. Still on the wrong page? Make sure you
have a section break on that page. Beware of section breaks. If you
don't understand them, they can be a hassle. Less is more.
Andy L.
 
Jay, I like your solution of IF page.
Once I have inserted the code in the footer, how do I toggle back and forth
to see the code instead of the resulting text, etc.
Tx for the data.
And tx to all for the tips.
Sat
 
Right-click the field and choose Update Field, or just press F9. To see the
code again, right-click and choose Toggle Field Codes or press Shift+F9.

Really, this stuff is easy to find if you bother to use the Help function...
 
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