This was previously posted in the Microsoft Word Tread but was not resolved so I thought I would post it here.

I need to develop a macro for adding a continuation heading based on a template using 7 outline levels. The outline numbering is as follows:



Heading 1: 1.0
Heading 2 and Heading 2 TOC: 1.1
Heading 3 and Heading 3 TOC: 1.1.1
Heading 4: A.
Heading 5: 1.
Heading 6: a.
Heading 7: 1)

We require a continuation heading for any page that starts with a Heading 4 or higher. Some examples would be 6.1.2.B. (continued), 7.2.1.A.13. (continued), 5.3.2.B.2.b. (continued), etc. It needs to look at what the current heading level is at the top of the page and return a cross-reference to the parent Heading above.

In a perfect world this would be automatic, but manual would be better than the time consuming method of manually cross-referencing the preceeding parent step and manually typing (continued).

Word has no built-in functionality for doing this. Although you could use a complex combination of IF and STYLEREF fields to test whether the Heading 4 or higher that starts a page is the same as the one that ends the page, then use the results of the IF tests to conditionally output the relevant heading reference plus '(continued)', I can't see how you could prevent '(continued)' appearing on a page that actually starts with a Heading 4 or higher.

The only way to achieve what you're after via a macro would entail using Section breaks so the corresponding page headers could contain the heading references plus '(continued)', but that would make subsequent maintenance of the document a nightmare.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]