All of my section breaks are Next Page, because we use chapter number with page numbers starting at 1. I recreated several single-section break section formatting buiding blocks today.

Our "big deal" challenge is inserting a landscape break (first page type) in the middle of a portrait section, and adjusting the headers/footers and page numbering to fit the inserted section. The next challenge is that most Appendix sections are landscape, which sometimes start with portrait, but usually follow a portrait section. Therefore, the headers/page numbering must change.

Using just the first section break does not retain the header/footer no link, or the orientation, or the page numbering (continue) properties. So it's pretty much useless to create a building block to do that. We may as well then teach authors how to insert a next page break, change orientation, insert headers and footers and reformat page numbers. This is what I'm trying to avoid, because the authors may be brilliant with web services, but have no proficiency or interest in Word.

We editors will spend most of our time reformatting the structure of the document headers, orientation and page numbering.

This is the reason I was thinking abut a form and code. Can you point me to a resource to learn how to do VBA in Word? I'm somewhat conversant in Access VBA, but Word confounds me. Everything is different. Or do you have other suggestions?