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cross-refs across included documents
And the answer is: "Type them".
You cannot use cross-references outside the current document without using a Master Document. If you use a master document, your troubles are only just starting: it's a bad way to go. Personally, I place my pictures inline with text, and in the position they are required in the document. Then all the cross references work. Once you understand Word's picture placement mechanism, you won't have problems with pictures moving out of place. The "secret" is to place them all inline with text unless you absolutely require text either side of them. If you must use floating pictures, make sure you know where the anchor is and what will happen to it if you edit the document. In your case, you "could" use Picture Placeholders. Place a square the correct size in your document at the correct position. Put a caption on it, and cross-refer to that. After printing, you paste the printed graphic over the top of it. {Sigh} Thirty years of development to enable Word to automatically handle pictures correctly, and the users go back to the pre-computer methods of paste pot and scissors, rather than spend 20 minutes in the Help looking up how to do this... :-) Hope this helps On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:21:18 GMT, anon k wrote: I'm trying to assemble a large document, and many of the included (sub-)documents refer to the same illustrations. The illustrations all go into one file of their own. This results in several advantages: one image can be repeatedly cited and still easily found; the whole run of illustrations can be printed on a different paper stock; it eliminates problems from Word's shoddy text flow algorithms that routinely ram illustrations into the margins and separate them from their captions. The question is, how should I insert the cross-references? -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 |
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