I can enter the first (or last) Heading 1, or the Heading 2, or the Heading 3. But I don't care what level the first heading is. Can I get a styleref to ANY heading?

Some pages have the first heading as a Heading 1
1. Introduction
6. Travel

Some pages have a lower level heading
2.2 Budget template
7.5 xjhrek

I want the first heading on the page to show in the footer, regardless of the level of the header.

Ok - now I've said the same thing 3 times.



Any tips??
Thanks.

A StyleRef field can reference any Style, regardless of whether Style that is a Paragraph Style or Character Style or, if Heading (which is a Paragraph Style), what level that Heading is. However, a StyleRef field cannot choose between Styles as to which it might show. If you reference Heading 1 via a StyleRef field, then the Heading 1 content is what will be replicated, regardless of whether any other Heading Styles occur on the same page. So, if you reference Heading 1 via a StyleRef field and if you also reference Heading 2 via a StyleRef field, both will show. There is also no other field code that will allow you conditionally to determine which StyleRef field to show.

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Assuming that I have correctly understood what you are trying to accomplish, try the following...

You can create a character style with no formatting added by setting its "Style based on" option to "(underlying properties)." Then apply your character style to all of your heading paragraphs and add { STYLEREF "mycharacterstyle" \L } to the header. For this to work, there must be at least one heading style on each page (otherwise Word starts searching on the other pages).

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