Insert changing informationinto header

I am trying to insert page specific information into headers of documents.
We prepare meeting agendas in Word tables that easily reach 15 - 20 pages.
The time block for 10:30 - 12:30, for example may have three pages of detail
We use a Word table set up like this;

Start time End Time Subjects

We of course do not want the times to repeat on every line. But it is
confusing when there are several pages in a row with no times at all on them.

I had thought I could use section breaks (they would need to be continuous,
not new page section breaks) and have a different header for each section,
name each section according to the time inserted into the table, and insert
that section name into each page's header.

Now, I could go through and manually do this. But our people are not
particularly computer literate and I was looking for some way to set it up
for them. I could get them to maybe insert section breaks after each time
slot, but to get into the intricacies of a system like would be used to
insert cross references that refer to chapter headings in a manuscript are
well beyond their capability or determination.

I think I am to used to Access where in reports I believe I could do this
somewhat easily. Is there any way to tell Word to insert whatever the last
non-empty entry in a column of a table was (up to that point in the document)
into a header for that page?

Hi Robert,

Format the time in the text with a style that you don't use for anything
else. Then place a StyleRef field in the header, and it will repeat the most
recent text having that style. Check the help topic on the StyleRef field to
see the various ways it can be used.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

RobertMcCafferty wrote:
I am trying to insert page specific information into headers of
documents. We prepare meeting agendas in Word tables that easily
reach 15 - 20 pages. The time block for 10:30 - 12:30, for example
may have three pages of detail We use a Word table set up like this;

Start time End Time Subjects

We of course do not want the times to repeat on every line. But it is
confusing when there are several pages in a row with no times at all
on them.

I had thought I could use section breaks (they would need to be
continuous, not new page section breaks) and have a different header
for each section, name each section according to the time inserted
into the table, and insert that section name into each page's header.

Now, I could go through and manually do this. But our people are not
particularly computer literate and I was looking for some way to set
it up for them. I could get them to maybe insert section breaks
after each time slot, but to get into the intricacies of a system
like would be used to insert cross references that refer to chapter
headings in a manuscript are well beyond their capability or
determination.

I think I am to used to Access where in reports I believe I could do
this somewhat easily. Is there any way to tell Word to insert
whatever the last non-empty entry in a column of a table was (up to
that point in the document) into a header for that page?