Endnote reference to more than one place in a document

[Suzie]

If I create an endnote to explain a wording change for
example, and have to attach the notation to other places
in the document where the same change was made, is there a
way to enter the notation? I know I can insert a cross-
reference to the subsequent instances of the wording
change, but that causes the cursor to hyperlink to the
location of the original wording change in the text,
rather than the endnote itself. Is there a way to cross-
reference which will take the reader to the endnote itself
in lieu of the originally endnoted location within the
text? Hope this makes sense...
Thanks,

Suzie

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hey Suzie,

From my Word 2001 Help, under
"Refer to the same footnote or endnote more than once" (the hardest part of
Help is figuring out the right topic to search for)

"1. Click where you want the reference located.
2. On the Insert menu, click Cross-reference.
3. In the Reference type box, click Footnote or Endnote.
4. In the For which box, click the note you want to refer to.
5. In the Insert reference to box, click Footnote number or Endnote number.
6. Click Insert, and then click Close.
Notes
The new number that Word inserts is actually a cross-reference to the
original reference mark. If you add, delete, or move a note, Word updates
the cross-reference number when you print the document or when you select
the cross-reference number and then press F9. If you have trouble selecting
the cross-reference number by itself, try selecting some surrounding text
along with it, and then press F9.
If you want a footnote or endnote cross-reference to appear in superscript
text, select Footnote number (formatted) or Endnote number (formatted)."

IOW, when you insert a new endnote and the original endnote number changes,
the cross-reference endnote number will not change until you update fields
by pressing F9. Disconcerting at first, but it does work properly.

Dayo

 

[Suzie]

Thanks, Dayo. I'm glad you threw in the part about F9 -
that would have surely been another problem later. I take
it from your answer that there is not a way to cause a
cross-reference to refer on edirectly to the endnote
itself in lieu of the original reference mark?

Also, in reference to your earlier suggestion to de-
select "suppress endnotes" in Page Setup to locate
endnotes at the end of a section rather than the end on
the document, what if "suppress endnotes" is checked, but
in gray and therefore not able to be unchecked?

Thanks,

Suzie

 

[Suzie]

Thanks, Dayo. I'm glad you threw in the part about F9 -
that would have surely been another problem later.

Thanks,

Suzie

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Not sure I understand your question, but what the cross-reference to an
endnote does, as I remember, is insert the same endnote number. So you can
have two or three sentences on separate pages, all with a superscript "3" at
the end of them, and thus all directing the reader to endnote number 3. It
sounded like that was what you wanted, but perhaps not? I never have
hyperlinks in my word documents, which are planned for printing, so can't
help if you are looking for a hyperlink solution.

Do a Save As and experiment on a copy?

F9 doesn't cause a problem, just freaks you out, say when you insert an
endnote at the very beginning, and the original endnote number in the
example above changes to "4" and the cross-references don't, b/c they are
fields, and you have to command them to update by hitting F9. But then they
all change to "4".

Hope that helps, Dayo

[Second question on separate thread "one more endnote question"]