Cross Reference

[jesse]

I'm reminded of a great song by Mick Jagger.....but hey,
you know, you may find a way. I would be very much
interested in whether the contiutity between cross
references and chapters can be maintained in MS Word
without creating master and sub-docs. You didn't bother
mentioning why you didn't want to use them. Many find them
rather intimidating at first, but using them would be a
fix.

Good luck

 

[Charles Kenyon]

--
"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the
limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these
newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a sure way to
destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are
not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said
that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and
those that will be corrupt soon. See <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm> for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. (This page also has a link to Steve
Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.


--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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I'm reminded of a great song by Mick Jagger.....but hey,
you know, you may find a way. I would be very much
interested in whether the contiutity between cross
references and chapters can be maintained in MS Word
without creating master and sub-docs. You didn't bother
mentioning why you didn't want to use them. Many find them
rather intimidating at first, but using them would be a
fix.

Good luck

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Jashua

When you create a custom label in the Insert > Cross-reference (or Insert > Reference > Cross-reference) box, then that custom label
is saved in normal.dot. Or rather, that's what Word wants to do.

If, when you exited Word, you got a prompt asking if you wanted to save normal.dot, did you say Yes? Or, maybe you're in a corporate
environment in which the IT Nazis have prevented you from saving to normal.dot, or, just as awfully, over-write your normal.dot
every time you log on?

You'll need to re-create the custom label (make sure you use exactly the same spelling as you did before). And make sure it gets
saved in normal.dot. You should then be able to see your items in the Insert > Cross-reference dialog box.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia