On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page style and 
> then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that all this does is to 
> anchor the frames in the header: they can still be positioned (possibly by 
> dragging) wherever you need them on the page. Since the frames are anchored 
> in the header, they will automatically reappear, along with their content, on 
> each page. The header itself does not need to encroach on your page text 
> area, as you can adjust some combination of the header height, the header 
> spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on the final 
> appearance.

Clever and fiendish!  It works (but see below)
> 
> When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by inserting a 
> manual page break (with no change of page style), the frames will all 
> reappear on your new page. You can create an identical table around them or 
> you can choose to copy the first page to the second, amending the variable 
> text as necessary. To avoid needing to delete or replace the variable text, 
> you could choose to copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly), 
> before you added the variable text to the first (and each) page.

Unfortunately, when I move to the second page and amend the text, it changes it 
on the first page also.  I'm going to have to print this a page at a time:-(

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