I do this.


I have one document that holds the header and footer in bookmarks.
My templates have an AutoNew macro that copies those bookmarks into the header and footer area in the document, overwriting any current content.

You could, instead, store your header/footer as AutoText in a Global Template. Then use AutoText fields in your templates/documents. You can use AutoNew / AutoOpen macros to update those fields. That is better, IMO, than using bookmarked text.

However, someone needs to know what to change when changes are needed.

In either of these, you edit the base and it gets updated when the template/documents are used.

Hi Charles, very interesting and helpful, thank you

Some things there that I didn't know and, therefore haven't tried but I'll give them a go

Thanks again

My headers are ludicrous, There is so much code that it 'overflows' the header area and 'disappears' into the body (see image)

Of course once the document gets 'mailmerged' by our system then all that appears in the right jand column (under the logo) is a regular address; but the code needed to capture this is really excessive and what you can't see in the image is a some more rows for capturing the remainder of the address, plus office email address, phone

IS there a way to only see the header in Word display (in the same way you avoid seeing Headers in draft view), so the whole header bceomes visible for editing; in essence moving the horizontal row (named page header) down to reveal the whole thing.

As an indication, this is what the entire header code looks like (Yeah I know I can shift the margin of the right column temporarily so I can see the whole thing, but then I have overlapping text from the left text box and DRAFT 'watermark' and it all becomes very messy) please see below. When it is crammed in to the necessary narrow area below the logo it's a 'mare:


<%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeAddress1Event ")%><%if(!applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObjec t(pageContext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeAddres s2Event").equals("")){%>
<%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeAddress2Event ")%><%}%><%if(!applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEform Object(pageContext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeA ddress3Event").equals("")){%>, <%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeAddress3Event ")%><%}%> <%if(!applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pa geContext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeAddress4Ev ent").equals("")){%><%=applyEventToBusinessEntity( getEformObject(pageContext),"McLarens.DocumentTags .OfficeAddress4Event")%>
<%}%><%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject( pageContext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeCityEven t")%>, <%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficePostCodeEvent ")%>
Tel: <%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficePhoneEvent")% >
<%=applyEventToBusinessEntity(getEformObject(pageC ontext),"McLarens.DocumentTags.OfficeEmailEvent")% >

2 July 2022
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