Inserting "section" name in the header (ToC, Figur

[jenpc]

In a document I have page styles for "frontmatter first page", "frontmatter left page" and "frontmatter right page". In the front matter I have a "Table of Contents", a "Figure Index" and an "Index of Tables". The paragraph styles for the headings of each of these are "Contents Heading", "Illustration Index Heading", and "Table index heading", respsectively. Each table/index was auto-generated by Writer.

What I want to be able to do is have the header of the frontmatter pages contain the appropriate name of the section (Table of Contents, Figure Index, or Index of Tables).

Suggestions on ways of doing this and what might be easiest? I have things working OK for chapters in the main portion of the document, but I'm not sure of the best way to implement things here. Ideally I could insert some field which would display the appropriate section name. I'd rather not muck with what Writer is doing automatically for me, if possible. If necessary I realize I can create different page styles for each section, but 9 page styles for frontmatter is a bit mcuh; hopefully there's a better method.
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Jen

[ftack]

At first sight, I am afraid that the only way here is to use different page styles. I agree that it becomes lengthy and cumbersome. The most elegant approach would be if Writer had fields that change according to a custom style, similar to the way you currently use a field to reflect the chapter titles. This would be a usefull enhancement request.

If one must use changing page styles, then in this particular case, you would benefit from hierarchical page styles, but Writer does not support these. You would then then have been able to create one page style containing the page settings, and then separate page styles that have as one change a different header. One change in the 'parent' page style would allow to change properties for all Index pages.