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Fields are very practical aids. First, you have already been spared the trouble of
typing the current date manually, and beyond that, the “Print date” field is not
merely a fixed value, but a symbolic value that stands for the current date. It is
automatically updated when you print the document. So, if you print the practice
letter tomorrow, tomorrow’s date will appear in the same place.
With the help of fields you can not only insert the date, but also output the current
page number of your text, its filename and many other kinds of information.
Furthermore, fields can be used to put in database fields from a database, as is
required for form letters.
Page footers
Before you continue, you can open the file TOUR3.TMD. It contains the example
document as it should look at this stage of the exercise.
You can set up page headers and footers for every document – headers will be
printed at the top, and footers at the bottom, of every page.
For page footers you invoke the command Insert > Footer. Nothing much really
happens: the text cursor is just positioned in the bottom margin. This is the area in
which you can enter footers.
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