Freezing the Fields

[vijay J]

I am writing a research document, using heading styles,
numbering, caption, cross-reference and other similar
features of Word (Word 2000). I would like to send it to
my supervisor for corrections, who, however is not very
comfortable with these features, but just plain Word. Is
there a way to convert all cross-refereces (including
bibliography citations and figure captions etc) to plain
text, which I can apply to a copy of my document and send
to my supervisor, so that when he opens the document or
tries to cut/paste or move things, errors like "source
not found" don't pop up. I then plan to implement the
changes suggested by my supervisor in my original
document myself. I have read a similar article on this
website recently to convert autonembering to plain text,
and I needed a similar thing for all my fields, and I am
aware that this might be a one-way process.
Thanks

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Word uses Unlink Fields as the term for what you want. It will convert all
fields to un-update-able plain text. Select All and hit control-shift-F9.
Obviously, just do a Save As FIRST and convert that and send it off to your
advisor, as you say.

Note: I believe EndNote also has a command for this, which conceivably you
would need to use for EN fields, but I don't think so--I think I have used
Word's Unlink Fields to freeze an EndNote biblio as plain text. Anyhow, you
might just want to test that specifically.

 

[Vijay J.]

Thanks Dayo, this is exactly what I was looking for. I
also looked into Endnote's capability of doing so, as
suggested by you, and yes, it works, by using the "Remove
field codes" button on the Endnote toolbar from within
the Word. As you said, it acts only the EN fields
(Bibliography part), and so is particularly useful if we
want to unlink only the bibliography.

For some unknown reasons, I am unable to "reply" to the
reply for last few days, and as such, I have to post a
reply as if posting a new post, so it might disrupt the
hierarchy levels within the thread. My apologies for this.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

I suspect you just can't reply to me b/c the web interface has some faults
with the newsreader I am using. Replying to your own post works, unless you
want to use Google or a newsreader to access the forum/newsgroup.
More info on newsreaders:
http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm