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Default cross references fail to update

No, I was the one who did the moving, and when something gets hooked
in wrong like that, the whole moved item gets gray highlighting, so I
know to Undo it and move it more carefully.

I reentered the cross references and that paragraph was ok -- and then
the stray one I happened to notice later on was correct.

On Jan 22, 5:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Very likely in the process of moving, the author got one example inside the
bookmark for the other. Reinsert the cross-reference (which will reinsert
the bookmark), and you should be okay.

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

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This could be serious. I have my first chapter back from an author.


She changed the order of a few examples (for instance, the old (43) is
now before the old (42)).


I rearranged the two examples, and they renumbered themselves
properly.


I selected the text containing the cross references to the renumbered
items and pressed F9 -- and the cross references changed so that both
the old (42) and the new (42) are referenced as (42), and Ctrl-
clicking on the hyperlink takes me to (42) for both of them.


For this one case it's not a problem, but it will be a very serious
problem in that superlong chapter with over 1000 cross references,
some at a great distance, especially since in the ms. the author had
omitted one numbered example so I inserted an empty numbered paragraph
so the cross references would read as intended, and when I delete the
empty paragraph, every example after it and all the cross references
to them will have to decrease by 1 (even if there are no insertions,
deletions, or rearrangements).


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