Word 2000 Table Footer

[mazdahead]

Hi,

I have an issue working with tables for a customer, The company has an
internally generated header and footer for every page of a document that we
produce for them. We need to be able to create tables that are sometimes
extremely long and each page needs a repeating area for signatures and
comments at the bottom. We can't add this signature and comments section to
their footer. What I need is a way to add the signature and comments area to
the bottom of a table and just like the function that repeats selected rows
at the top of each page, I want a selection to repeat the rows at the bottom
of each page. Is there a macro or VB solution already designed to accomplish
this?

Dale L. Witman

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi

There is no built-in functionality for this in Word.

I guess you have two choices.

Option 1 is to break up the tables manually so that one table fits on a
page, and add appropriate rows to the bottom of the table to hold the
signature and comments. That could get very very tedious in editing, as
material is added or removed and the page breaks change.

Option 2 is to use a footer to hold the signature and comments. You can add
this footer information above the existing footer information. And, it
doesn't need to apply to the whole document. You could create a separate
section just for this part of the document, and have your special footer
apply only to that section.

For more about how to do that, see
Working with sections
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[mazdahead]

Hi Shauna,

I think you did not understand my question. I can not add anything to their
footer, unless you meant create a 2nd footer, I don't think that's possible?
and the other solution is what we are currently doing, and it is not
acceptable from a document development and editing side of things. Our
documents can become very large, over 1000 pages, with many many tables. This
is what we want to avoid.
I think it will need to be a programmed fix? Thanks for your input tho.

Dale