RE: MS Word--Formatting text in cross reference fields

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

Hi Wendy,

Is there a reason that you can't apply the boldface using character styles,
instead of manually? That would solve your problem right away. If your users
don't want to learn about character styles, you could set up Autotext to
apply a character style while the text is being typed. Alternatively, you
could use Find-and-Replace to apply a character style once the document's
complete.

Dan Goldstein

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy_Secrist -at- selinc -dot- com 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've lurked for a little while and learned a great deal. I'm 
> hoping some
> of you Word experts can help me solve a little problem I'm having with
> Word.
> 
> For one of our document types, we create figure and table 
> captions with
> the following format:
> 
> Figure 1   Description of caption
> 
> The "Figure 1" part is bold (manually applied format); the 
> description is
> regular text. The two pieces are separated by an em space.
> 
> For various reasons (some not logical, but not negotiable at 
> this time) we
> have to keep this format. The problem is that when we insert cross
> references to the captions, the cross references insert as 
> bold text...