Tricks Needed for StyleRef Field

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Hi, all. I hope someone has a trick I might use.

The situation is this: I am using Heading 1 to ennumerate my chapters, and have entered the text with a line-break character separating the text “Chapter n:” from the rest of the title (for aesthetics.) I have a StyleRef field in the header of each section, to reflect the current chapter title. However, the header is (of course) also including the line break, which I do NOT want.

I briefly considered using Numbering with the style Heading 1, but I find it a pain in Word 2007, since there doesn’t seem to be a convenient way to modify the numbering style of the Heading 1 style if I need to tweak it. Also, I want the header to reflect the chapter number, which it didn’t when I use auto numbering (although I suspect there would be some way of doing that via fields.)

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can have the chapter title break in the middle in the body of the document but not in the header?

Thanks in advance for you help and ideas.

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If you want the automatic heading number to also appear in the styleref then you need to use a pair of styleref fields {StyleRef “Heading 1” n} {StyleRef “Heading 1”}.

If you are not using autonumbering then you could use a different style for both lines and use a paragraph break
Heading 1 Number
Heading 1
Then in the header you can use {StyleRef “Heading 1 Number”} {StyleRef “Heading 1”}

Alternatively, you could change the new line break into a tab and place a tab stop right at the end of the paragraph (so the text wraps onto the next line as soon as a character is added after the tab). Then in your styleref field you just need to make sure the tab appears close to the following text.

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Brilliant! Thanks for the help; it’s exactly what I wanted.

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