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Linking to a Field
Cindy,
Ah, I figured there had to be a way, thanks! Now to update the rest of the document and use it in future documents! Thanks, Shane "Cindy M." wrote in message news:VA.00000997.007d7ba8@speedy... Hi Sv, I have 20 parts, each of which is shown on figure 6-3 and 40 parts, each of which is shown on figure 6-4. The parts list for figure 6-3 shows, in the first column, nothing but 6-3's and the parts list for 6-4 shows nothing but 6-4's. This is as it should be. Now, I insert a figure between them, which is automatically numbered as 6-4 (because of the SEQ command), and 6-4's figure number automatically updates to 6-5. Unfortunately, the parts list for the old 6-4 (now 6-5) still shows all "6-4" as they're all TEXT not fields or anything. I'm looking for a way to have the figure number identifiers on the parts list follow the number of the figure if it changes. You can bookmark the entire figure number, then use a REF field instead of the static "6-n" numbering for each part. For example, you can select the 6-4 text then Insert/Bookmark. Type a descriptive name (Part_test, for example). Now delete the 6-4 in front of a part designation, press Ctrl+F9 to insert field brackets and type REF Part_test. Shift+F9 will hide the field code. From here on, you can copy the field and paste it over the other numbers. If you insert another set in front of the 6-4 information, once all the fields in the document are updated (Ctrl+A, F9 will force this), all the Ref Part_test fields will display 6-5, same as the Figure caption. Another way to do this would be to use Insert/References/Cross reference but I find that slower and less easy to maintain (the bookmark names are many-digit numbers) than the "manual approach". Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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