link en freeze sections in MS Word? 1

[JeroenB]

hi,

I have several sections in my word document (let's call them sections A, B, and C). Now, I want to achieve the following:

1) Section B should correspond with a specific page in my document e.g. page 30. As a consequence, Section A always consists of 29 pages.

2) I would like the text of Sections A and C to be linked, in the sense that, if I am adding text to section A, the text that overflows the 29 pages, should be added to the top of Section C. Text should never be added to Section B. In other words, Section B should be freezed.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

many thanks
jeroen

 

[fumei]

This is poor design. Why exactly do you want to do this?

Gerry

 

[fumei]

Oh, and Word Sections do not work that way. Sections are in effect separate. While it would be possible to run code to check on the end page number of Section A, and if was now 32 pages, go back and chop off 3 pages, and then move those to the start of Section C...this is, again, poor design and is NOT the way Word works. You would have to do real coding to force Word to do this, and YOU would have to run the code. You could not make Word do it auotmatically. It would ALWAYS think that 32 pages (or anything over 29 pages) is perfectly fine for Section A. Which it is.

Gerry

 

[macropod]

Hi Jeroen,

You could get an effect similar to what you've described via full-page linked text boxes, organised so that your 30th page is the only one that doesn't have a linked text-box.

AFAIK, such an approach would be limited to 32 linked text boxes.

For a description of text box linking (Wd 2000), check 'text box' in Word's help file and follow the link that describes the differences between text boxes and frames. From there you'll find another link to "linking the text boxes".

Cheers

 

[JeroenB]

The reason why I am working with section is because the page orientation may vary within the document. So, while text-boxes would solve the linking problem; I would still need sections to control the page orientation. And by introducing the sections, you loose the lock and linking effect of the textboxes... So, I am afraid there is no solid solution to the problem.

 

[macropod]

Hi Jeroen,

Text box linking works independently of section breaks - you can even link different sized text boxes on pages that may be a mix of portrait and landscape layout, with or without intervening sections.

One potentially significant issue, though, is that anything inside the text boxes won't be picked up in TOC, etc.

Cheers