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rbarline
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
This is a weird one. I am trying to use cross reference fields to keep track and auto update my references to figures in the body of my document. For example, in a sentence, instead of typing "see Figure 1" I instead insert a cross reference of the type "Figure" and choose "Only label and number" as the reference to ... then I select the figure from the drop-down list. The "Figure 1" is inserted into my text as a field rather than as text. I do not check the "Insert as hyperlink" box, as that makes it difficult to select the text in the document (it hyper-transports me to the figure ... :~) Oh, and by the way, in case it matters, the figure numbers are fields themselves, auto-generated as captions inside text boxes that are set to "in front of text" wrapping. and lay on top of a chart picture object that I pasted in using Paste Special/Picture.
This is really cool because if I add another figure above Figure 1, not only does the caption figure number auto update, but if I update all fields in the document, the text "Figure 1" changes to "Figure 2" and saves me from having to go back and manually increment all the figure number references in the document. OK, so far, so good, but here's the problem: For some reason the character style of the cross reference text changes to that of caption after each update field operation. I want the character style to be Arial 12 black, even though the caption style is set to Arial 10 blue. But after each update field, the cross reference text changes to Arial 10 blue. It is apparently not only linked to the figure label and number, but also the character style. This isn't going to work, since I need the cross reference text to remain a different format from the caption style.
There should be a way to unlink the character formatting of the cross reference text from the formatting of the target text. The field code for the cross reference is { REF _Ref82233482 }. I know that fields have "switches" that control how the resulting text looks, but I would not have a clue as to how to manually adjust the field code to achieve my goal. Even if there is a switch, it would be a pain to have to manually edit each field code. Any thoughts?
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
This is a weird one. I am trying to use cross reference fields to keep track and auto update my references to figures in the body of my document. For example, in a sentence, instead of typing "see Figure 1" I instead insert a cross reference of the type "Figure" and choose "Only label and number" as the reference to ... then I select the figure from the drop-down list. The "Figure 1" is inserted into my text as a field rather than as text. I do not check the "Insert as hyperlink" box, as that makes it difficult to select the text in the document (it hyper-transports me to the figure ... :~) Oh, and by the way, in case it matters, the figure numbers are fields themselves, auto-generated as captions inside text boxes that are set to "in front of text" wrapping. and lay on top of a chart picture object that I pasted in using Paste Special/Picture.
This is really cool because if I add another figure above Figure 1, not only does the caption figure number auto update, but if I update all fields in the document, the text "Figure 1" changes to "Figure 2" and saves me from having to go back and manually increment all the figure number references in the document. OK, so far, so good, but here's the problem: For some reason the character style of the cross reference text changes to that of caption after each update field operation. I want the character style to be Arial 12 black, even though the caption style is set to Arial 10 blue. But after each update field, the cross reference text changes to Arial 10 blue. It is apparently not only linked to the figure label and number, but also the character style. This isn't going to work, since I need the cross reference text to remain a different format from the caption style.
There should be a way to unlink the character formatting of the cross reference text from the formatting of the target text. The field code for the cross reference is { REF _Ref82233482 }. I know that fields have "switches" that control how the resulting text looks, but I would not have a clue as to how to manually adjust the field code to achieve my goal. Even if there is a switch, it would be a pain to have to manually edit each field code. Any thoughts?
