Customizing a Figure Cross Reference?

[Guest]

Fellow Forum Members,
When I do a Cross Reference, Reference Type: set to "Figure" and Insert
reference to: set to "Only label and number" the result I get is a field that
looks like this: Figure 3-64.

How or where do I customize this field so that the type always appears in
BOLD BLUE (to indicate that it's a Hyperlink when I PDF it) and with
paranthesis so that it looks like this: (Figure 3-64). ?

I have looked all over WORD 2003 and I can't find a place that will let me
control the formatting a cross reference appears with. Any help will be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Adding parentheses is easy. First, display field codes, for example by
pressing Alt+F9. Then use Edit | Replace:

Find what: ^d REF
Replace with: (^&)

Click Alt+F9 again to hide field codes.

To apply the formatting, you could try a macro such as the following:

Sub FormatRefFields()
Dim f As Field
For Each f In ActiveDocument.Fields
If f.Type = wdFieldRef Then
f.Code.Text = f.Code.Text & " \* CHARFORMAT"
f.Code.Font.Bold = True
f.Code.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
f.Update
End If
Next f
End Sub

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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