[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My problem is that I *don't* usually look at subject lines, since I read
*every* post! But I agree that it's weird that even when you do look at the
subject line, you can forget it in the split second the message takes to
open.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
So sorry about that! I'll try to get the article updated soon. I
actually
read another message right about that time (not sure if it was GnO's on
this
thread) that made me think that might be a problem, but I forgot to post a
PS.

Amazingly, though I skim the subject line to see what I need to bother
reading, I have often completely forgotten it in the millisecond of
switching to read the actual message. It all depends on how individual
brains work, so there's never going to be one good answer. I figure on
newsgroups, redundancy is always the safest way.

I think Word also treats hidden text like fields--e.g., I think it Word
Counts hidden text if visible, not if not visible. This has thrown me off
as well.

Daiya

On 9/4/06 9:01 PM, "Epinn" wrote:

Hi Daiya,

Thank you for stepping in and helping out. Believe it or not, this is
probably the first and only time I have not repeated the subject of the
post
in the body of the message. I had never run into a problem before.
Thanks
for letting me know that not everybody reads the subject etc. and I'll
make
a point to include it in the body.

Regarding the formatting of the reference field, I followed the
instructions
in the link to the dot and still couldn't get it working. It took me a
while to figure out what was missing.

Unlike ^p which does not require show/hide to be on, ^19 only works when
field codes are **visible**.

It will be nice if something similar to the following is included as
part of
the instruction in the link.

"If you're searching for fields, you must display field codes. To
switch
between displaying field codes and field results, click the field, and
press
SHIFT+F9. To show or hide field codes for all fields in the document,
press
ALT+F9."

Finally, I got it working.

Thank you for your attention.

Epinn


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
Re the replace suggestion, from

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...#AlphaEndnotes

"you can use Find & Replace to format all the cross-reference fields.
To
do
so, go to EditFind. Click More in the dialog. Enter ^19 REF in the
Find
box. Put your cursor in the Replace field, then click on the Format
drop-down menu in the dialog, select Font, and apply the formatting you
want
to the empty Replace box."

Someone once went off on me for redundancy between my first line and
subject
line, but I also have a tendency not to read subjects *with* the
message.


On 8/31/06 4:19 AM, "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

It just dawned on me what you were asking... it would have been
better if you had put your whole question in this big white space
provided for that purpose, instead of half of the question in the
subject line (which I originally missed) and the other half down
here (which is out of context when the subject line is ignored).
When you insert a cross-reference, you insert a REF field,
which unlike a normal hyperlink is not affected by the Hyperlink
style. You can make fields such as REF fields visible on screen
by clicking on Tools | Options | View | Field shading: Always |
OK. Shaded isn't quite the same as blue and underlined, but you
should still be able to distinguish them from regular text.
Alternatively, you can manually format each cross-reference as
blue and underlined or use Edit-ReplaceAll to search for REF
fields and replace with FindWhatText+Blue+Underline.

Epinn wrote:

Insert as hyperlink is checked and no problem linking. However,
there
is no
way to tell that text is a hyperlink just by looking at it; not blue
in
color and not underlined. Have I missed any settings somewhere
else?

Thanks.

Epinn