Hi Michael,

I had tried this before, but tried it again - when I add the \! switch, the
Parent document lists the page number that appears in the child document
(Page 30), not the page that the bookmark appears on in the Parent document.
(I think that this is how the \! switch is supposed to work)

If I remove the \! switch and update fields, the page references all point
to the page that the INCLUDETEXT starts on (which is different from before,
before it was pointing to the last page of the INCLUDETEXT).

If I update fields again, it points to the last page of the includetext.

In either case, it's pointing to the wrong page

Right. OK, I just tried a quick test on my installation (Word 2003) and I'm
not seeing the problem. So I'm guessing this may be an issue in this set of
documents.

If you:

create a new document with a few pages (type this then, press Enter:
rand(30,6)

Then insert a heading at the top, and a cross-reference to that heading with
the page number at the bottom. Now save and close.

Now create another multi-page document and insert/file with link for the first
file you created...

...does the field behave correctly?

If it does, then we can be reasonably sure we're dealing with some kind of
structural damage in one or the other document.

In this case, first try inserting a link to a "chapter" document into the
second test document. Does it behave correctly in this document?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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