Paul, thank you!

I used to use Ctrl + F9 constantly as an indexer, but I had completely forgotten it (I didn't know I was that good at compartmentalizing!) Of course!

& thanks for the tip about the MERGEFORMAT switch.

So just for future reference, would QuickParts give me an easier way to automate the header and footer content than having my users go into the Properties dialog (which is not quite as easy to get to in 2007), and then manually updating the headers and footers?

Luckily I've got some pretty savvy users at the moment, but these templates will eventually go out to contractors, and I can't guarantee they'll all read the instructions. The more foolproof I can make this, the better!



Thanks again,
Caroline

Only if the QuickParts list the properties you're interested in - your custom Instructor property, for example, won't appear.

However, there may be another way of meeting your needs. If you have, say, a title page where all the details you want to have appear in the Header/Footer can go in one or more paragraphs with their own unique Styles applied, then you could use StyleRef fields in the Header/Footer to replicate those details. For example, you might create a 'character' Style named 'Instructor' spanning a MACROBUTTON field coded as:
{MACROBUTTON NoMacro Type the Instructor Name here}
and a STYLEREF field in the header coded as:
{STYLEREF Instructor}

The MACROBUTTON field will appear in the document as 'Type the Instructor Name here' and, as soon as the user starts typing there, will be deleted and replaced by whatever they type. Simultaneously, the header contents will update with the same data.

You could have multiple such MACROBUTTON fields with their own Styles and corresponding STYLEREF field in the header or footer. There are other ways of doing the same kind of thing without MACROBUTTON fields (eg a table with various cells formatted in the relevant Styles), but I thought you might be interested in this way.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]