In reply to gmayor, I don't see how your suggestion could be applied in my situation. I'm not trying to put anything in the header or footer but at the top of the page. I do see some good information about waiting until the document is finished before running the macro but it doesn't really show me how to note the first appearance of a heading on a page (it could come after a table or graphic) and then find it's parent header on the preceding page (could be several pages back).