[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Select the numbered text, go to Insert | Bookmark, check the box for "Hidden
bookmarks" and select the radio button for "Location." Note the bookmark
that is highlighted. It will be in the form _Ref123456789.

Now display field codes (Alt+F9) and use Find to search for the text of the
bookmark (i.e., _Ref123456789 or whatever), which will be in a REF field
somewhere.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Dan Smith" wrote in message
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I'm trying to find where an autonumber is used as a cross reference i.e.

[17] some text
...
See Ref [17]

Where the second [17] is a cross reference to the first displaying the
text.
I cannot 'Find' [17] in the document (not even the original autonumber).
Ideally I'd like something like Excel's 'Show Dependants' option to show
where an item is referred to. But I'd settle for just being able to search
the document without having to save it as a .txt file first.