crosslinks

[Arjan Mol]

Hi!
I'm working on a quite long report with many figures and tables in it. I use
captions for the figures and tables so Word is controlling the numbering of
these objects. When I'm referring in the text to these figures of tables, I
use cross links, so when the number or name of a figure changes, the link
automaticly changes too.
The problem is that these links in the text have the samen format as the
caption of the objects I'm referring to. And because these captions starts
with a capital letter, the link also starts with a capital letter, but I
don't want that, because it is in the middle of a sentence. I can change the
capital letters of the links, but every time I reopen the document, Word
changes it back, because of the capital letter in the captions.
Can this be solved?
Soryy for the bad english, I have no english version of Word, so I don't
know if I used the correct naming.
Arjan

 

[Stefan Blom]

In English, what you're referring to are called cross-references.
Each cross-reference is actually a REF field. The result of a
field depends on its field code, that is, the instructions that
determine the value of the field. You can use ALT+F9 to toggle
field code display. With field codes displayed, each reference
will appear similar to:

{ REF _Ref55806941 \h }

The part with numbers is the name of a hidden bookmark, generated
by Word when you inserted the cross-reference. It will be
different for each REF field, unless of course you have
referenced the same figure (or table) more than once! "\h" is a
so-called switch; it makes the field into a hyperlink.

You can add "\* lower" to the end of the field code in order to
force lower-case display. In other words, modify your REF fields
so they look like the following:

{ REF _Ref55806941 \h \* lower }

Then select the entire document and press F9 to update all
fields. Finally, use ALT+F9 to display the field result again.


Stefan