[Stefan Blom]

Before copying the cross-reference and the caption, try the following:
Place the cursor in the caption label. On the Insert menu, click
Bookmark. Check the "Hidden bookmarks" option. Click "Location." You
should now see the bookmark name. Write it down on a piece of paper.

Copy the caption and its cross-reference to the new document. Repeat
the above procedure to determine if the bookmark is still intact. If
it is, it should display the correct number and label, after an
update.

A question: When you "shuffle" your paragraphs around, how do you do
that?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Ron" wrote in message
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Stefan,

I rarely define bookmarks myself, so all the bookmarks are
autogenerated.

I have made sure to copy all of the paragraph to the other document,
but the
same thing always happens, the caption updates but the
cross-reference
doesn't.

What seems to be happening is that Word "sees" there is an existing
caption
at 2-2, so it doesn't want to update the newly inserted
cross-reference. Of
course Word doesn't know that I want to move 2-2 from doc 1 to 5-9
in doc 2.
Sometimes I even need to shuffle my paragraphs around within the
same
document, and I get the same problem.

I really need the self updating feature of captions and
cross-references,
but I need them to be "smarter".

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a VB way around this, so the link
between
the caption and cross-reference could be hard coded and
self-updating,
regardless of the number of times it's inserted into a document, or
moved
within a document.

Thanks for your help