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From: techwr-l-bounces+jessica -dot- weissman=hillcrestlabs -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jessica -dot- weissman=hillcrestlabs -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 2:14 PM
To: TECHWR-L Writing
Subject: Re: Word 2007 cross-references
How is a user supposed to know there's a hyperlink there without the
color cue? Seems like a bug to me.
I just put in a requisition for FrameMaker and downloaded a 30-day
trial so I can get my work done, but I'm still curious if there's some
way to bludgeon Word into behaving correctly.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jessica Weissman
<Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:
> In Word 2003, if you check that box the cross ref is a hyperlink in the
> sense that if you click it you go to the location; it does not take on
> the hyperlink style.
>
> Word 2007 is probably doing the same thing.
>
> The hyperlink style by itself does nothing in either version except,
> maybe, turn the text blue sometimes. It does not make it a link.
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