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Default Formatting cross-references


'Gary[_13_ Wrote:
;2879018']Thans for your help, Suzanne.

I -think- I've decided to live with blue bullets to save time as every

section and sub-section will be mapped with cross-references. So I now
have
a paragraph style for the bullet list and a character style for inside
other
paragraphs. I'm sure tomorrow I'll change my mind ... again.

I'll be curious to see if anyone even notices that the bullets are blue
(or
thinks it odd that they're blue).

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You can remove the formatting from just the paragraph mark, but I find

Word's "helpful" behavior in this case very annoying. No matter how
carefully you select everything *but* the paragraph mark, and
regardless
of your Tools | Options | Edit settings wrt selection, Word still
includes
the paragraph mark if you select text at the end of a paragraph.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Gary"
wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply. I was afraid of that.

Thankfully, you can set the REF field to preserve its format when you

update so (so far) the format has "stuck" after updating (F9).

The other annoying thing is that if the cross-reference is the entire

paragraph (such as when I'm mapping a chapter and have all of the
Heading
1 titles in a bullet list) if I apply the character format to just the

text (and don't include the paragraph mark) it still formats the
paragraph and my bullets turn blue. So I have to add a dummy character
at
the end of each bullet item, format the cross-reference text, and then

delete the dummy character.

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Gary, the bullet formatting is linked to the formatting of the pilcrow
(the paragraph marker) as you know. Word indeed is annoyingly "clever"
here. A quicker way than adding/deleting dummy characters (I think), is
using Ctrl-H (Find/Replace) to change all pilcrows back to black (Find:
^p, Replace by ^p (formatted as black)).




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Henk57