[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In that case, displaying field codes and using Find to search for ^d REF
should do the trick. Or if you set field shading temporarily to "Always,"
they'll be more obvious as you scan visually.

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

"grammatim" wrote in message
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I don't want to replace anything, I just want to be able to go back
and see how I dealt with particular kinds of x-refs many pages earlier
-- that is, I just want to be able to find them without scrolling
through dozens of pages and maybe missing them because there's nothing
distinctive about them on the screen.

On Jan 1, 10:20 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
The page on my web site is relevant to all versions, including 2007?
^d REF will find REF fields, but how is that going to help you, if you
don't
know the cross reference code to replace it with? ^d does not work in a
wildcard search.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
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grammatim wrote:
Thank you -- there's information there that doesn't seem to be
available anywhere else. _But_ -- it's Word2000-oriented. Is it all
still valid in Word2003? (I don't even ask about 2007, which from the
queries here doesn't appear to be at all an improvement.)

If References are Fields, howcome searching ^d doesn't find them?

On Jan 1, 2:58 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Take a look athttp://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

Cross references to numbered items use ref fields in a manner
similar to the following, using an internally generated bookmark eg
{ REF _Ref186943993 \r \h }

While you can run the replace function on displayed fields, I don't
see any easy way of modifying that construction to give the correct
result?

You mentioned that you were detaching the hyperlink, which does pose
a way forward. If you convert all the fields to text (CTRL+A then
CTRL+SHIFT+F9) you can use replace normally on the resulting text.
eg to change (\([0-9]{1,3})(\))([a-z])
to
\1\3\2

if there are a-bs etc to find then do those first
(\([0-9]{1,3})(\))([a-z]-[b-z])
to
\1\3\2

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org


grammatim wrote:
Is there a secret wild card character for "Cross-Reference"? (It's
not in the list of Special things in the Find-Replace dialog. As
you know if you've been following my saga, I will have hundreds of
cross- references in the form "(123)a" that will have to be changed
to "(123a)" at the last moment after they've been decoupled from
their hyperlinks; but there are a few like "(123)a-b" that will
have to change to "(123a-b)".

I can do the former by simply Find-Replacing )a , )b , )c , and )d
with a) , b) , c) , and d) , but there are likely to be other
examples of )- here and there, so I can't just search for them
automatically.

And Jay just mentioned a super-secret wild card " \1 " that refers
to unspecified text found by Find! Is that correct? Backslash and
not caret? And howcome I've never found this mentioned anywhere? It
could have been quite useful over the years!

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