Xref: utzoo comp.text:7372 comp.editors:1922 comp.os.msdos.apps:419 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:2375 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.editors,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Word Perfect 5.1 question -- running headers/footers Message-ID: <39830@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 6 Oct 90 05:12:56 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 32 I have a question about WordPerfect 5.1 for the PC. I am considering buying WP, but I want to know the answer to this question first. Suppose I am writing a book, with chapters and sections within chapters. I want to have the chapter name, and also the section name, included as part of a "running header" and/or "running footer" on each page. I would like to do this by defining a "paired style" for the chapter name -- and another, similar paired style for the section name -- which will automatically insert the chapter and section names into my running headers/footers as desired. I do =not= want to define a brand-new, complete running header or footer all over again each time a new chapter or section starts. Not only am I not willing to do all that typing, but I want to be able to define the layout of the running header/footer just once -- and be able to change the layout just once if necessary, and have the change take effect throughout the entire document (but with the appropriate chapter and section names in each occurrence of the header/footer). I want to just type the chapter/section name, and invoke the appropriate paired style around the name, and nothing else. Is it possible to do this in WP 5.1 by means of paired styles? If so, could someone please send me e-mail with a basic description of how this can be done? Or, if it cannot be done via paired styles but can be done in some other way, please let me know that. -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "I do not know. I have never done this before."