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cross references fail to update
This could be serious. I have my first chapter back from an author.
She changed the order of a few examples (for instance, the old (43) is now before the old (42)). I rearranged the two examples, and they renumbered themselves properly. I selected the text containing the cross references to the renumbered items and pressed F9 -- and the cross references changed so that both the old (42) and the new (42) are referenced as (42), and Ctrl- clicking on the hyperlink takes me to (42) for both of them. For this one case it's not a problem, but it will be a very serious problem in that superlong chapter with over 1000 cross references, some at a great distance, especially since in the ms. the author had omitted one numbered example so I inserted an empty numbered paragraph so the cross references would read as intended, and when I delete the empty paragraph, every example after it and all the cross references to them will have to decrease by 1 (even if there are no insertions, deletions, or rearrangements). Word2003. |
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AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!! A cross reference to an example in this group from
30 pages later updated itself properly. As someone said the other day, "It's just Word being Word." On Jan 22, 3:40*pm, grammatim wrote: This could be serious. I have my first chapter back from an author. She changed the order of a few examples (for instance, the old (43) is now before the old (42)). I rearranged the two examples, and they renumbered themselves properly. I selected the text containing the cross references to the renumbered items and pressed F9 -- and the cross references changed so that both the old (42) and the new (42) are referenced as (42), and Ctrl- clicking on the hyperlink takes me to (42) for both of them. For this one case it's not a problem, but it will be a very serious problem in that superlong chapter with over 1000 cross references, some at a great distance, especially since in the ms. the author had omitted one numbered example so I inserted an empty numbered paragraph so the cross references would read as intended, and when I delete the empty paragraph, every example after it and all the cross references to them will have to decrease by 1 (even if there are no insertions, deletions, or rearrangements). Word2003. |
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cross references fail to update
Very likely in the process of moving, the author got one example inside the
bookmark for the other. Reinsert the cross-reference (which will reinsert the bookmark), and you should be okay. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... This could be serious. I have my first chapter back from an author. She changed the order of a few examples (for instance, the old (43) is now before the old (42)). I rearranged the two examples, and they renumbered themselves properly. I selected the text containing the cross references to the renumbered items and pressed F9 -- and the cross references changed so that both the old (42) and the new (42) are referenced as (42), and Ctrl- clicking on the hyperlink takes me to (42) for both of them. For this one case it's not a problem, but it will be a very serious problem in that superlong chapter with over 1000 cross references, some at a great distance, especially since in the ms. the author had omitted one numbered example so I inserted an empty numbered paragraph so the cross references would read as intended, and when I delete the empty paragraph, every example after it and all the cross references to them will have to decrease by 1 (even if there are no insertions, deletions, or rearrangements). Word2003. |
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No, I was the one who did the moving, and when something gets hooked
in wrong like that, the whole moved item gets gray highlighting, so I know to Undo it and move it more carefully. I reentered the cross references and that paragraph was ok -- and then the stray one I happened to notice later on was correct. On Jan 22, 5:34*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Very likely in the process of moving, the author got one example inside the bookmark for the other. Reinsert the cross-reference (which will reinsert the bookmark), and you should be okay. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "grammatim" wrote in message ... This could be serious. I have my first chapter back from an author. She changed the order of a few examples (for instance, the old (43) is now before the old (42)). I rearranged the two examples, and they renumbered themselves properly. I selected the text containing the cross references to the renumbered items and pressed F9 -- and the cross references changed so that both the old (42) and the new (42) are referenced as (42), and Ctrl- clicking on the hyperlink takes me to (42) for both of them. For this one case it's not a problem, but it will be a very serious problem in that superlong chapter with over 1000 cross references, some at a great distance, especially since in the ms. the author had omitted one numbered example so I inserted an empty numbered paragraph so the cross references would read as intended, and when I delete the empty paragraph, every example after it and all the cross references to them will have to decrease by 1 (even if there are no insertions, deletions, or rearrangements). Word2003.- |
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