Hi austechies, Many thanks to those who helped me keep my hair when struggling with MS Word footers. The solution that worked for me was this: * put the source text in the body of the document; not in a text box * feed the source text to the footers with StyleRef fields Voilà. Automatic footer updating. Some days I could almost like MS Word. Cheers Geoffrey Marnell Principal Consultant Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd T: +61 3 9596 3456 F: +61 3 9596 3625 W: <http://www.abelard.com.au/> www.abelard.com.au