Have you tried Ctrl+A then F9? If the referred item still exists in the
document, the cross reference to it should then be updated.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Seb" wrote in message
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I write large reports and I use the cross referecne feature for tables and
figures in Word XP extensively in my texts. Unfortunately now and then I
have to rearrange or add/remove some of these tables and figures via the
caption feature. The table/figure numbers are updated automatically and
correctly, I apprecieate that

However, the cross-references in the texts themselves are not updated
In fact, the hyperlinks also point in the wrong places. That means I have
to scan through every cross references and manually make alterations to
these
references. I think that defeats the supposedly intended purpose of
having
the cross-reference feature in the first place. Perhaps this is a bug?