Hi Michele

mjones wrote:
[..]
I tried both your ideas, but unfortunatly neither works. I set the
text on my page to both "Keep lines together" and "Keep with next", and
they did, and the TOC worked, but still no selection in cross-reference
heading. Then I tried the 'page break before' and again no go,
although I like this one and will use it going forward.

You deleted the hard pagebreak, too, right?


Let me know if you have any further ideas (I've worked 3 hours already
trying to figure this out!). In the meantime, I will review the links
you mentioned.

I couldn't imagine why the heading is not showing up in the Insert |
Reference | Crossreference dialogue. Did you make sure that you have
selected the correct category there ("Heading")? Is the heading style in
question numbered (by Word's listnumbering, not "manually" or via a
field numbering)? If so, what if you chose "Numbered items" as the category?


You see, I need to prepare large documents. I am a certified Project
Management Professional and I need to prepare large Project Plans with
lots of outlining, tables, pictures, cross-references table of
contents, appendices...the whole nine yards. I'm sure links you sent
will come in handy. I have to learn this.

http://word.mvps.org along with groups.google.com (searching in theses
newsgroups here) will be your companion for a while, then!


Someone told me once that FrameMaker was better for this type of thing
so if anyone has any opinion on that I'd appreciate some feedback.

I have but a one-week course experience with FrameMaker. It's a very old
and thus pretty stable DTP application. But starting to learn it today
doesn't seem like a very good investment IMHO (Adobe doesn't look too
inclined to invest too much into the product anymore). It couldn't tempt
me to learn more about it despite a handful of interesting features.

Word is a huge application full of features that the casual user has no
idea they're there, or how to use them. It lets you do one thing in a
multitude of way, and usually only two or three ways are really advisable.


Also, I have a new book to write (well for the author). The first book
she gave me half done in Word so I continued with it, but I'm wondering
if there isn't better software to do that kind of thing, too.

You should use what you know best (and learn that tool better en route).
"Best practice" would always be to create your own template and start
from scratch (i.e., importing the text via the clipboard or as a raw
text) and style everything through. A/_the_ starter for that would be:

Creating a Template (Part II, by John McGhie)
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm
[There's a short "Part I" article up on the same site, too.]

If you run into trouble with a document that didn't originate in your
own hands, then it's often a lot harder to determine (esp. from far
away) what actually is going wrong. If you don't find the solution to
your crossref problem soon, I can offer to take a look into a sample
file (where you stripped out as much as possible while still retaining
the bogus effect; you could send that one zipped up to my email address).

Greetinx
Robert
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