'breadcrumbs' in header with conditional styleref jon.hertzig[ at ]gmail.com 22.09.2006 03:51:37 Just want to toot my own horn ... been wrastling with a problem that was reported in several outdated posts: how to get a header to show "breadcrumbs" in a complex document, eg so that it says "Heading 1 > Heading 2 > Heading 3 ..." for whatever's on the current page (I have a document with 8 levels of header and was wanting to show the navigation on each page). The problem is that the Styleref field searches for the first occurence of a style (eg, Heading) up or down in the entire document, not just the current page. So if you are on a page that only goes up to H3, it would include the H4 from several pages hence in the document. There's no way to use the PageRef or other fields to pick up the page number of the StyleRef that it finds... but here's how I solved it: Creating a character style that has no attributes, HeadChar, and applying it with global search-replace to all headings. Then searching for the first 'HeadChar' from the bottom up (\l), and if it matches a style level, insert that style with all the previous levels. So, for example, for level 3: {IF {STYLEREF "Heading 3" \n \l} = {STYLEREF "HeadChar" \n \l} "{STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \p \l} > {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \p \l} > {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \p \l}" } It works!

Re: 'breadcrumbs' in header with conditional styleref jon.hertzig[ at ]gmail.com 22.09.2006 04:15:04 that last conditional should have had "Heading 3" instead of "Heading 1" at the end (so it's saying, if the first heading it finds starting its search from the current page is a level 3 heading, then show "Heading 1 (num & text) > Heading 2 (num & txt) > Heading 3 (num & txt)" do this for every level, and add the HeadChar to a random paragraph on the opening pages before the first H1 appears to suppress the breadcrumbs on those pages. jon.hertzig[ at ]gmail.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > Just want to toot my own horn ... been wrastling with a problem that > was reported in several outdated posts: how to get a header to show > "breadcrumbs" in a complex document, eg so that it says "Heading 1 > > Heading 2 > Heading 3 ..." for whatever's on the current page (I have > a document with 8 levels of header and was wanting to show the > navigation on each page). > > The problem is that the Styleref field searches for the first occurence > of a style (eg, Heading) up or down in the entire document, not just > the current page. So if you are on a page that only goes up to H3, it > would include the H4 from several pages hence in the document. There's > no way to use the PageRef or other fields to pick up the page number of > the StyleRef that it finds... but here's how I solved it: > > Creating a character style that has no attributes, HeadChar, and > applying it with global search-replace to all headings. Then searching > for the first 'HeadChar' from the bottom up (\l), and if it matches a > style level, insert that style with all the previous levels. So, for > example, for level 3: {IF {STYLEREF "Heading 3" \n \l} = {STYLEREF > "HeadChar" \n \l} "{STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" > \p \l} > {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \p \l} > > {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \p \l}" } > > It works!

Re: 'breadcrumbs' in header with conditional styleref "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 22.09.2006 14:35:33 Thanks for this. I'm sure many users will find it useful. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. <jon.hertzig[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1158898504.338260.28240[ at ]m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > that last conditional should have had "Heading 3" instead of "Heading > 1" at the end (so it's saying, if the first heading it finds starting > its search from the current page is a level 3 heading, then show > "Heading 1 (num & text) > Heading 2 (num & txt) > Heading 3 (num & > txt)" do this for every level, and add the HeadChar to a random > paragraph on the opening pages before the first H1 appears to suppress > the breadcrumbs on those pages. > > > jon.hertzig[ at ]gmail.com wrote: > > > Just want to toot my own horn ... been wrastling with a problem that > > was reported in several outdated posts: how to get a header to show > > "breadcrumbs" in a complex document, eg so that it says "Heading 1 > > > Heading 2 > Heading 3 ..." for whatever's on the current page (I have > > a document with 8 levels of header and was wanting to show the > > navigation on each page). > > > > The problem is that the Styleref field searches for the first occurence > > of a style (eg, Heading) up or down in the entire document, not just > > the current page. So if you are on a page that only goes up to H3, it > > would include the H4 from several pages hence in the document. There's > > no way to use the PageRef or other fields to pick up the page number of > > the StyleRef that it finds... but here's how I solved it: > > > > Creating a character style that has no attributes, HeadChar, and > > applying it with global search-replace to all headings. Then searching > > for the first 'HeadChar' from the bottom up (\l), and if it matches a > > style level, insert that style with all the previous levels. So, for > > example, for level 3: {IF {STYLEREF "Heading 3" \n \l} = {STYLEREF > > "HeadChar" \n \l} "{STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" > > \p \l} > {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 2" \p \l} > > > {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \n \l} {STYLEREF "Heading 1" \p \l}" } > > > > It works! >