Later...
Well, tried overlapping the page boundary with the footer boundary. Damned if I could get that to work. Tried forcing the text lower using an Advance field but that wouldn't work either.
However I discovered that a TOC field will include text within a table. I was able to position a table over the footer, with its anchor relative to the page or margin. Hooray, of sorts. It takes a bit of stuffing around to align the table with the underlying footer - and you have to copy the table to each page - but it's do-able.
Tomorrow I'll try inserting the table into the footer. I doubt that it'll work because the TOC wouldn't collect raw date fields within the footer but you never know - M$ might have cocked up & let that bit of usefulness slip through.
Keeping the footer is advantageous for the items that are repeated throughout the section, otherwise I'd have to manually add each of them to every page.
So, the steps I've worked out so far to give a semi-automatic Effective Page List:
* Apply Continuous Section Breaks to a page. Format within to however many columns you like. Add a TOC to this area. This will become the EPL.
* Format the TOC to use a unique Heading style, not used for anything else in the document. Disable the TOC from using any other Heading Style. While in that window, change the TOC Level for the reserved Heading Level to '1'. This will prevent the TOC from indenting the list by however many Heading Levels down the list you've chosen use ie HL1 is normally not indented, HL2 a tab stop in, HL3 by three tab stops etc.
* Format the footer so that the text there leaves a space where you will have text within a table overlayed .
* Insert a table. Format the table so that its position is relative to the page or margin. Position the table so that it overlays the footer area. You might have to adjust the text positioning ie top/centre/bottom of the cell with the table to keep it aligned with the footer text.
* Within the table insert a Date Field (and if you want a Revision Number). Format both to the previously defined & reserved Heading Level.
* Copy all the above to each page in the document.
* You will have to manually update the date field on each page as part of its revision. You must also manually update all fields of the EPL TOC prior to saving the document.
Note: You can still have a normal TOC elsewhere but you will need to use Heading Levels within the document that don't conflict with the EPL TOC's Heading Level.
Much later... Realised that the Date Field has to use CreateDate with a manual update for the pages that have been revised, otherwise everytime the file is opened the date changes. Also you need to select the 'Keep Formatting' option when defining the style to make sure that you don't lose the Heading Level during updates.
Last edited by Tinstaafl; 29th December 2007 at 19:45.