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Subject:Re: Word 2007 cross-references From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:16:39 -0500
It all depends upon whether you can find documentation of those
switches. If they are hidden, and not mentioned, as the were at least in
the previous version of Word, in the dialog box options, then they are
not accessible to those who use them infrenquently. Information hidden,
is information lost.
Scott
Dan Goldstein wrote:
> Not "were" -- "are."
>
> The field codes are still in Word 2007, and they're still the most
> flexible and useful part of Word.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: quills
>> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 1:59 PM
>> To: TECHWR-L
>> Subject: Re: Word 2007 cross-references
>>
>> So Microsoft has refined its "you will work as we think you should"
>> attitude. The field codes were the most flexible and useful
>> part of Word.
>>
>> Robert Lauriston wrote:
>>> Help on field codes: "In Microsoft Office Word 2007, there
>> is little
>>> need to insert fields manually, because built-in commands
>> and content
>>> controls provide most of the capabilities that fields provided for
>>> many versions of Word."
>>>
>
>
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