Carole,
They won't update on the fly, but they should update when
you save and reopen the doc, or when you select one or more
of them and press F9.
Press ALT+F9 with one of the cross-ref fields in view on
the screen. What does it say?
--
Mark Tangard <(E-Mail Removed)>, Microsoft Word MVP
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Carole wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I tried the method you described in your first paragraph
> but the cross-references do not get updated when I add a
> paragraph which causes all subsequent paragraph to get
> renumbered.
>
> Carole.
>
> I am using Word 2000
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Carole,
> >
> >If you use automatic paragraph numbering, you don't need
> >bookmarks. Click Insert-> Cross-Reference. In the left
> >hand dropdown box, choose Numbered Item, and in the right
> >hand box, choose Paragraph Number. The references will
> >update automatically when the file is opened or printed
> >(or you can force a manual update by selecting any of the
> >cross-ref fields (or the whole document) and pressing F9.
> >
> >Unfortunately this works only if you use Word's built-in
> >autonumbering for the paragraphs but not if you want to
> >use {SEQ} fields instead, which as I recall are generally
> >more stable. You could, however, use SEQ fields and just
> >bookmark those you want to cross-reference, then in the
> >Insert Cross-Ref dialog select 'Bookmark' and 'Bookmark
> >Text' in lieu of what I described above.
> >
> >In either case your cross-references will update without
> >all the tedium of doing it manually. As you probably
> know,
> >using bookmarks means you must be a bit more careful so
> >that you don't trash the bookmarks themselves while
> editing
> >
> >--
> >Mark Tangard <(E-Mail Removed)>, Microsoft Word MVP
> >Please reply only to the newsgroup, not by private email.
> >Note well: MVPs do not work for Microsoft.
> >"Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters
> >
> >
> >
> >Carole wrote:
> >>
> >> Our publications have 20-30 pages and each paragraph
> >> number (manual) is included inside a bookmark. The text
> >> contains many cross-references to these paragraph
> numbers.
> >>
> >> When we add and delete paragraphs, we renumber all the
> >> paragraphs by hand. Is there a way that we can use the
> >> automatic paragraph numbering and have that reference
> >> included inside a bookmark?
> >>
> >> Carole
> >.
> >
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