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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Why don't cross-references update automatically?

I suspect that switching to Print Preview wouldn't work (except for fields
that update at print time anyway) if you didn't have "Update fields" enabled
in the Print Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Switching to Print Preview and then back to your favorite view works.

Also, you can set the option to update fields before printing: In Word
2007, click the Office button, and then click Word Options. In the Display
category, select "Update fields before printing."

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Stefan Blom
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"Daniel Pflughoeft" Daniel wrote in
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Is there a reason cross-references aren't updated automatically?
Currently,
a user has to hit ctrl+a, f9 to update all cross-references (and do it
again
for the header/footer, since ctrl+a does not highlight them) in the
document.
This makes cross-references unusable for large documents edited by many
people, some of whom don't know that the cross-references need to be
manually
updated (or don't know how).

I can't imagine why this wouldn't be done automatically on save - perhaps
that can be added as a feature to Office 2010 SP1?

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