Is there a top end to the number of cross references a Word document will
handle? I have a 300+ page document with well over 1,000 cross-references to
the 93-item Works Cited section. All those references plus an 89-page table
in Appendix B make me worried about how stable this document is going to be.

I'm running Office 2003 under Windows XP Professional.

Thanks,

Fred

Hi Fred,

You might find Word limits your creativity he it only supports 16,379
bookmarks and 32,000 fields per document. Oh, and bookmark names can't be
longer than 40 characters.

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Idaho Word Man" wrote in message
...
Is there a top end to the number of cross references a Word document will
handle? I have a 300+ page document with well over 1,000 cross-references
to
the 93-item Works Cited section. All those references plus an 89-page
table
in Appendix B make me worried about how stable this document is going to
be.

I'm running Office 2003 under Windows XP Professional.

Thanks,

Fred

Does a cross-reference work the same as a bookmark? I'm using Insert -
Reference - Cross Reference - Numbered Item to insert my references.

Right now the references are all hard typed, but I need to remove about 1/3
of my works cited, and I want to have the electronic cross references in
place before I start cutting items out of the list. Oh, the curse of
numbered references!


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Fred,

You might find Word limits your creativity he it only supports 16,379
bookmarks and 32,000 fields per document. Oh, and bookmark names can't be
longer than 40 characters.

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Idaho Word Man" wrote in message
...
Is there a top end to the number of cross references a Word document will
handle? I have a 300+ page document with well over 1,000 cross-references
to
the 93-item Works Cited section. All those references plus an 89-page
table
in Appendix B make me worried about how stable this document is going to
be.

I'm running Office 2003 under Windows XP Professional.

Thanks,

Fred

Hi Fred,

No, a cross-reference is a field that points to a bookmark. Note that if you
use Insert|Cross-Reference to link to anything other than a bookmark you've
created, Word creates a hidden bookmark behind the scenes to point to it. A
Table of Contents, for example, typically bookmarks every heading it uses
throughout the document, but that doesn't mean inserting a cross reference
to the same heading will generate two bookmarks.

Still, you're unlikely to encounter any problems working within Word's
limits. If you do, you could always split the document into two (or more)
parts, and link them together as source documents in a target document (just
don't use Word's 'master document' feature for this unless you want to grow
old real quick).

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Idaho Word Man" wrote in message
...
Does a cross-reference work the same as a bookmark? I'm using Insert -
Reference - Cross Reference - Numbered Item to insert my references.

Right now the references are all hard typed, but I need to remove about
1/3
of my works cited, and I want to have the electronic cross references in
place before I start cutting items out of the list. Oh, the curse of
numbered references!


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Fred,

You might find Word limits your creativity he it only supports 16,379
bookmarks and 32,000 fields per document. Oh, and bookmark names can't
be
longer than 40 characters.

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Idaho Word Man" wrote in
message
...
Is there a top end to the number of cross references a Word document
will
handle? I have a 300+ page document with well over 1,000
cross-references
to
the 93-item Works Cited section. All those references plus an 89-page
table
in Appendix B make me worried about how stable this document is going
to
be.

I'm running Office 2003 under Windows XP Professional.

Thanks,

Fred