Hello,
I am writing a technical document which should indicate in the header if the section continues on current site. The document has several sections and each page can have several sections and sections are named with a style. For example, I have section named "X" which is spread to several pages. On each of these pages the header should indicate that the "X continues" (if it is not the first page of section). Is it possible to automate this? It almost works if I make field styleref but styleref only finds the first style of the page not the first style of the section.

In addition I have an if condition in the header for checking if the page is the first page of the section and it is written like this: {IF {PAGE }<> 1}. Problem is that for modifying the table of contents to include chapter number I need to have the section page number format set to include chapter number and because of this that simple if does not work anymore.

Are you using the term "section" in the sense of the Word part?

• Working with sections by Dave Rado, MVP

If so, for sections that start a new page, you can use the Different First Page feature to have something different on the first page of the section and then add your "Continued" to the other headers/footers.


See also the StyleRef Field which can make section breaks for purposes of changing a header/footer unnecessary.