Insertion of separators/chapter markers/[Error404 no name found]
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Hello,
I wanted to know if it is possible to insert a kind of "tab" on the page edge in Word (Office 365, institutional license, Mac OSX 10.13) to mark the different chapters, and for these to be visible on the spine when printed (probably after trimming the unprintable edge). See photos for clarification on what I mean exactly.
In theory, I suppose the brute force method could work. Drawing the tabs with chapter numbers (in Word or elsewhere) while taking into account even and odd pages and copying/pasting them on each page. Given that my document is 300 pages long and contains 14 chapters, I would like to avoid this method.
But is there a real method to insert this kind of "tabs"?
Thank you in advance.
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I wanted to know if it is possible to insert a kind of "tab" on the page edge in Word (Office 365, institutional license, Mac OSX 10.13) to mark the different chapters, and for these to be visible on the spine when printed (probably after trimming the unprintable edge). See photos for clarification on what I mean exactly.
In theory, I suppose the brute force method could work. Drawing the tabs with chapter numbers (in Word or elsewhere) while taking into account even and odd pages and copying/pasting them on each page. Given that my document is 300 pages long and contains 14 chapters, I would like to avoid this method.
But is there a real method to insert this kind of "tabs"?
Thank you in advance.
Configuration: Macintosh / Safari 12.1.1
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Hello,
No, Word does not have that feature.
However, it is still easily achievable, not with copy-pasting on every page as you imagine, but by inserting the text box only in the header/footer of each section.
So, you will need to insert a section break before each new chapter, and if your document has 5 chapters for example, you'll just have 5 text boxes to set up.
So let me reassure you right away: header/footer does not necessarily mean positioning at the top or bottom. It means that the information will reappear on each page and can be changed with each new section. We can position the text box or the image absolutely anywhere, including on the right side as you wish.
For the size of the text box, just divide the height of the sheet by the number of chapters, and for the position, you will gradually add a height for the text box.
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