Creating alpha range for phone book pages?

[wyofuji]

Sure would appreciate a tip on the following:

I'm producing an employee directory and want to have the range of last names (A-C, L-M, etc)displayed in the header in the following format:

First letter of last name from the first record on the page, then a hyphen, then first letter of last name of the last record on the page.

I created a field with a calculation of the first letter in each record, but can't figure out how to write the calc to display the range in the header.

Thanks, Rich

Edited July 11, 2006 by Guest

[sbg2]

A sample file would give us more to go on.

[wyofuji]

Thanks. Attached is my experimental file. For illustration, I have entered "J-K" directly on the layout, but that is where the calc field would be entered.

Empl_Dir.zip

[efen]

I don't know whether it's any help but you can use your AlphaRange field in the header to show the initial of the first record and a reversed copy in the footer to show the initial of the last record on the page. Sort before preview.

see your revised file

I can't work out how to combine the two

Empl_Dir_rev.zip

[wyofuji]

Efen: Great idea, and certainly better than some of the manual options I was considering. Appreciate it!