Need a custom field that can be changed on each page of the document in Word 2010.



i'm formatting a religious scripture for print. I want to show the original language (Gurmukhi) in the left column and english on the right. The only way i found to do that is to create a table with 2 columns and paste in each translation into the cells.

i need to put a reference number (to the original Gurmukhi scripture) on each document page. These reference numbers are not related to how many document pages there are so there is no way to put them in automatically. i want this reference number to show in the footer next to the document page number.

i thought of creating a section break on each page, and then using that field to show in the footer. but that doesn't work inside of the table i created. it creates the new section before or after the table, which doesn't help because all of the text in the entire document is in the table. i have the same problem trying to add foot notes.

the only solution i have come to so far is to manually insert a text box on each page, and visually try to lay them out the same. this is ridiculously time consuming. what i want is a field (that shows up automatically on every page in the same place) that i can just type a custom text into, that won't carry on to other document pages. and this field needs to work somehow inside of the table i've created. unless there is another way to create the 2 columns for the 2 different translations. i don't know if Word will work for this, or what will, because i haven't seen any softwares that are made to be used for multi-lingual documents like this one.

Please Help!