[comp.text] Headers in WordPerfect 5.1

smbrush@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Andrew Brush (Sverdrup)) (10/22/90)

In answer to the person who asked (if I get this right) how he could 
define running headers in WP5.1, and then edit the header *format* for the 
whole document without getting into each header.

You *can* do this, with some limitations, using the STYLE feature:  
Define a PAIRED style, describing the header format you want.  Then, 
when you are in the header edit screen, turn on your header format style 
and type the header text between the [Style On: ... ] and 
[Style Off ...] codes.  Define a new header (A, for example) each time 
the header *text* changes (As usual).  Now, each time the style used in 
the header definitions is edited, the style *format* (but not text) is 
changed in every instance of that style.  To edit header *text*, you 
have to get back into the header edit screen.

This works easily with things like lines above and below the heading, 
page number formats, putting document name text in the style, etc.  That 
is, any format which can be made completely of codes *before* and 
*after* the heading text.  I haven't figured out how to define a style 
which includes the heading text in a graphics-style text box, or 
anything like that.

If anyone else has other ideas on this subject, please let me know.

Andy Brush [Sverdrup Technology] 216-826-6770