[Maribeth]

To DSC - I'm having the exact same problem with my cross references - the
most frustrating part for me HAS to be that this all worked wonderfully in
Word 2000 - I could insert cross references (inserted as hypertext from
Headings (formatted using MS Headings 1-9 - those magical styles that have
also taken a hit in this new and improved 2003 *frown*) and I could click on
the Back button from the web toolbar and get exactly back where I "jumped"
from. BUT NOT IN 2003. In this wonderful upgrade my company is going
through I am brought from Word 2000 in NT to Word 2003 and XP and NOTHING
works - mail merged documents keep looking for their data source (even though
the docs have been merged and there IS no data source needed any longer...)
default printer settings are kaput and anything with a "hotlink" (old
terminology I know - I've been at this many years) such as cross references,
TOCs and TOAs simply .. don't work - they aren't HOT - you can't get BACK to
where you jumped from.

To Jonathan West - the first button on the web toolbar does NOT take one
back to the cross reference point in the document. You are taken back to the
beginning (or close) of the entire document. Here's the scoop: I'm working
in a 113 page document and when I'm on page 42, in Section 4.3 and referring
to something in Section 1.4 - and I click ON the Section 1.4 cross reference
I am taken to that Section 1.4 (yeah - at least that DOES work) BUT when I
click on the back button of the web tool bar and am NOT taken back to Section
4.3 (so that I can continue reviewing and proofing my document) - I am taken
back to the beginning of the flinging document!!!! So from page 42 I go to
page 13 and then back to page 1 (or thereabouts - it seems actually to take
me back to the very first cross reference inserted - not helpful) and if I
want to go back to page 42 I either have to GO TO that page or get up the
document map and try to remember that I was in Section 4.3 to begin with.
The same is true of the TOC feature. The Alt-Left Arrow suggestion gets me
the same thing (back to the beginning of the doc) AND something strange
happens to my track changes - suddenly the outline numbering, which hasn't
given me ANY problems since I designed the templates I copy them in from in
2004 - doesn't work and I have Section numbers dropping out left and right.

"Jonathan West" wrote:


"DSC" wrote in message
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DSC reply:

Thanks guys for the rapid responce to my question. I was aware of the
hidden bookmark feature, but it still gives me list of meaningless numbers
that force me to follow the hyperlink or use some other indirect method to
figure out what a particular hidden bookmark is referring to.

Well, the field result should give you some clue as well.

I my document I frequently have 3+ cross-references in line, and it
becomes annoying to follow all the links to figure out what they all are
plus having to find my way back, even with the help of an extensive
document map. More importantly is when I want to make changes to the
cross-references, the former process is error-prone which could rapidly
add up in my large document. Further alternative solutions that seem
possible to me would be to have an internet-style back button that would
allow me to back track along a recently used hyperlink (i.e. a reverse
hyperlink?).

That is already available, in two forms

1. Press Alt-Left Arrow

2. On the Web toolbar click the first button

The button on the web toolbar can be copied to any other toolbar as well.

Ideally the cross-ref. would behave like the footnote it referres to and
would display the footnote text in a pop up initiated by the cursor.

Unfortunately, Word doesn't do that

I've tried putting comments over my cross-refs. to achieve the latter put
I need to delete then to use the hyderlinks, suppose I could add
hyperlinks to the comments again but that is not so attractive unless
automated.

It wouldn't be all that difficult to write a bit of VBA that would process a
document and enclose all th REF fields in HYPERLINK fields which point to
the same destination and have a tooltip defined which contains the whole
text of the referenced paragraph. If you need help with writing such a
macro, pop across to the one of the Word VBA newsgroups and I'm sure we can
help.

Alternatively is there a way I can force word to allow me to choose a name
for the hidden bookmarks of cross-references as for 'regular' bookmarks?

Not directly. You can create a bookmark marking any piece of text you want,
and create a REF field that points to it. But you can't force a naming
convention on the bookmarks Word automatically generates.

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Regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
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