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"cturner08" wrote in message
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Does "at the beginning of a cross-referenced paragraph" in your note refer
to
the heading (in my case) that I cross reference to?

I've been through my document to check that all the paragraphs with
Heading
styles are truly one-line paragraphs. Is there some other way I should be
checking for the source of the problem? Should I be able see problem
paragraphs with all formatting codes revealed? I don't see any unexpected
markings there.


For a cross-reference to a heading, Word creates a hidden bookmark that
encloses the heading, yes, and similarly for other items. To actually see
such a hidden bookmark it isn't sufficient to display bookmarks in the
document (unfortunately).

What you can do is the following: Place the insertion point inside the
bookmarked heading. Open the Bookmark dialog box (Insert | Bookmark). First
click "Hidden bookmarks" (you'll see the names of all hidden bookmarks) and
then click "Location," which will make Word select the bookmark. If this
doesn't work, you could try closing and reopening the Bookmark dialog box;
then Word should select the correct bookmark name in the dialog box. Click
Go To to have Word select the bookmark.

When the problem occurs on printing, it is usually the case that the first
previously normal style paragraph after the referenced heading has now
switched to heading style. But if I check that paragraph just before
printing, it will look like, and be identified as "normal" style.
Yesterday
I deleted and re-created an offending cross reference several times. The
first two, the problem re-occured when I tried to print the page. It
hasn't
(yet) come back again since the third time I re-created the X-ref.
Thanks!


Do you have your bookmarks set to update on print?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP






"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Make sure not to press Enter (or add text for that matter) at the
beginning
of a cross-referenced paragraph; if you do you will add the paragraph
mark
(or text) inside the bookmark, which will cause cross-reference trouble.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"cturner08" wrote in message
...
I'm having similar problems (in Word 2007, using Windows XP). I've
replaced
all the manual page breaks before headings with a "page break before"
in
the
heading paragraph definition. But sometimes - usually only triggered
by
printing a page - a cross reference set to display just the heading
wording
will bring in the entire section of text that goes with the heading.
I've
tried deleting the offending x-ref entirely, double checking the format
of
the heading being referred to, and then re-inserting this. But
problems
continue to crop up.

"cbemoras" wrote:

After a cross reference, when printing the document, sometimes a page
breaks
right after the cross reference even while printing to PDF. If I use
it
as a
hyperlink, it's even more likely to cause page breaks.