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Subject:RE: Word 2003 - formatting cross-ref text From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:09:01 -0400
I wanted just the opposite. I wanted it to apply (just to the field
text) the formatting that it found elsewhere in the document at the
target.
I think Bonnie and others have pointed me in the right direction.
Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security)
[mailto:David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 18:08
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Word 2003 - formatting cross-ref text
>
> Kevin:
>
> First of all, if you use the *\ MergeFormat switch in the field, it
> should retain whatever manual formatting you apply despite changes to
> the target or updates to the field.
>
> You might also try the *\ CharFormat switch. It's in a rather obscure
> topic in the Help. This switch makes the field adopt the formatting of
> the first character of the field name. For example, if you wanted your
> result to be set italic, you'd italicize the first character of the
> field name in the field code.
>
> Bear
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