Old Style Patents - Repeat words from next page

[Nick Partridge]

I'm reading some old (typed) patent applications and at the end of each page
- in the footer right aligned - that contain a slash / then the first few
words from the following page:
ie - end page 7:
/ above the
start page 8:
above the furnace bath,

Obviously this could be done by hand but add a couple of words on page 2 and
all the footers would be broken.

Any suggestions on automation?

Some pages have / TABLE 1 (underlined) and some just "/" where an image
follows.

 

[macropod]

Hi Nick,

If you apply a character style (eg named 'RefStyle) to the first few words of each page, a STYLEREF field in the footer, coded as:
{STYLEREF RefStyle \l}
will pick those words up and add them to the footer of the page preceding those words.

Obviously, though, you'd need your editing to be finished before doing this. Note, too, that a change in printer drivers could cause
the character style to no longer be applied to the correct set of characters, due to Word's reliance on information from the driver
to work out the document's pagination.