Controlling cross-reference font

[Kritz]

My text is all set to Garamond, but when I insert a cross-reference (in this
case, to figures and titles) the cross-reference text insists on coming up in
Times (which is the default Normal font). I'm not willing to keep switching
back and forth between Times and Garamond by redefining Normal, I just want
cross-references to come up in the font into which they're being inserted.

Any reasonably simple way to do this or is this one of those weird things
that Word just does because it can?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You do realize you can modify the Normal style in a given document without
affecting others? If all your text is Garamond, it just makes sense to
modify the Normal font. But you can apply formatting to cross-references and
maintain it with a \* MERGEFORMAT or \* Charformat switch.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

MVP Suzanne S. Barnhill posted this reply via NNTP (not yet visible here
<sigh>):

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You do realize you can modify the Normal style in a given document without
affecting others? If all your text is Garamond, it just makes sense to
modify the Normal font. But you can apply formatting to cross-references and
maintain it with a \* MERGEFORMAT or \* Charformat switch.
******

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

(Where is "here"? The messages you're repeating were visible in google
groups hours ago.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Stefan is referring to the Microsoft Communities forums, through which most
of the posters here access these NGs (the tipoff is a posting address of
"(e-mail address removed)").

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

(Where is "here"? The messages you're repeating were visible in google
groups hours ago.)

 

[Stefan Blom]

Of course, I should have clarified that I was posting via the web interface.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, even "Web interface" is not specific enough in this instance since
Peter is also posting through a "Web interface" at Google Groups. "Microsoft
Web interface" would cover it, I suppose.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Hmm, good point. On the other hand, Google Groups is *a* web interface, but
*the* web interface (with a definite article) must refer to Microsoft's
web interface, mustn't it? <g>

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

That's certainly what they think in Redmond, isn't it?

 

[Kritz]

If I change Normal, it will hose the rest of the document, which has several
styles that depend on Normal's current definition. In addition, I'm actually
talking about 500 individual documents, distributed to multiple authors
around Oceania, and which I'm trying to compile as they come in.

I'm not familiar with the \* switches you mention, but I can look them up.
I'm beginning to suspect that my original assumption is correct: this is
going to hurt.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, if changing Normal style will "hose the rest of the document," then it
is evidently not the case (as you originally stated) that all your text is
in Garamond. As for hurting, maybe not: see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/FormatCrossReferences.htm
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Kritz]

Additional weirdness emerges: Today I'm editing another file from the same
series of templates I distributed to my authors, and when I insert a
cross-reference, it appears as the body text font of the paragraphs into
which it is inserted -- which is what I wanted all along. Why this is
happening with this document and not the previous (same template, same
procedure) is an utter mystery to me.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Bob Buckland has famously said, "Word rarely misses an opportunity to
perplex."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org