Automatically insert "Continued" in footer based on existing STYLEREF

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Not sure how exactly to explain my desire... I have a document that consists of song lyrics used for singing gigs. It's a typical Word doc, and uses styles "Song Title" and "Song Lyrics" for formatting. The header uses STYLEREF to display the Song Title on pages 2+ of a given song.

What I'm trying to do is add "Continued" in the footer of pages 2+ of a song, and not show it in the footer when the next Song Title appears (i.e., page 1 of the next song).

The file gets displayed on an iPad, and pages are turned using a bluetooth AirTurn pedal. Obviously in the midst of singing, things can get moving quickly, so I might choose to insert an arrow of some kind rather than the words "continued" but I think the example is the same.

Any help is appreciated!
 
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I should add that I'd thought about using section breaks, but this will be set up in a Word dotx and will be highly edited, so section breaks are less than desirable for this application. My goal is to automate this with styles.
 

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Unless your StyleRef field can compare two song titles on the same page when a song ends (i.e. the new song doesn't start on the next page), it can't produce the results you're after. Subject to that proviso, you might use a field coded as:
{IF{STYLEREF "Heading 1"}={STYLEREF "Heading 1" \l} "Continued"}
where 'Heading 1' is the Style name used for the song title.
 

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