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Right. They are not in the dialog box. They are field codes.
Look up Field Codes in the help or in an aftermarket book.
- Jessica
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From: robert -dot- lauriston -at- gmail -dot- com on behalf of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Sun 10/4/2009 12:54 AM
To: Jessica Weissman
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: RE: Word 2007 cross-references
No, in Word 2007 there are no formatting options in thr Cross-reference
dialog.
On Oct 3, 2009 8:42 PM, "Jessica Weissman" <
Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:
Actually, I would hope not.
Sometimes I use cross-references to bookmarks to maintain consistent naming
for GUI items or product components. These things are formatted in a
specific way that I do not want overridden by hyperlink format, even if I
make the cross-reference a hyperlink. Sometimes I do want readers to be
able to hyperlink to the original description of the GUI item or whatever.
As someone else said, there's a switch on the cross-reference field thing to
govern whether the formatting stays linked to the text being
cross-referenced or not.
This way, every use case is accommodated. You can use the switch to let the
formatting be overridden. I can use the switch to make sure it is not.
And I'm happy that hyperlinks outside the current document can easily be
made to look one way, while cross-reference/hyperlinks inside the document
can be made to look another way.
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