You don't need a section break. You can (as I assume you know) use
"Different first page" to get a different footer for the first page in a
section. To get a different value in the last page, you need an IF field:
{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "Text you want on the last page" "Text you want
on the other pages" }

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Thank you very much for your reply.
Using this method, is there a way to find/replace the last page footer value
with an incremented value or to pass an incremented value to this method? For
example, Doc 1 needs a last page footer value of 10. Doc 2 needs a last page
footer value of 11. Doc 32 wraps back to a last page footer value of 10. The
code is in place to provide this incremented value but a method is needed to
get it into the last page footer without changing the other doc footers.

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> You don't need a section break. You can (as I assume you know) use
> "Different first page" to get a different footer for the first page in a
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> > How can a section break be forced before the last footer without impacting
> > the other pages?
Suzanne S. Barnhill - 20 Nov 2007 17:46 GMT
There's probably a way, though I can't tell you exactly what it would be;
you might try asking in one of the word.vba NGs for help. Some possibilities
to consider:
* Find and Replace at its most basic: if field codes are displayed, you can
find and replace text in them just as you would anywhere else, but you'd
have to tell Word where to look.
* You might want to consider using a DocProperty field to insert the number.
Of course, you'd have to find a way to write the value to the document
property, but that can be done, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/DSOFile.htm
I think the latter might be a more productive avenue of investigation for
doing this through automation.

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> Thank you very much for your reply.
>
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> > > How can a section break be forced before the last footer without impacting
> > > the other pages?