I want users to be able to type a date into the footer on the first page of a doument and have the date flow through a doument with several section breaks and landscape and portrait sections, using Word's StyleRef field in subsequent sections. The sections are not linked to previous.



In this document, there is a meeting date, with a StyleRef field in the header, but there's another date in the footer, the date the document is delivered to the customer. We don't want to put the delivery date in th document body.

After testing, I've learned that the style referenced by the field must be in the body of the document for the field to find it. Linking the field to a character style in the footer did not work.

Is there another way we could accomplish putting a date in the first footer and havng it flow through out the other sections?