How do I get cross referencing to update?

[Guest]

When I try F9 or right click and update field, the field doesnt update!

Any help???

 

[Guest]

Did you try selecting the entire document and updating it that way. Sometime
this helps.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Is the field (or the bookmark to which it refers) in a text box? If so,
change the text box to a frame and try again.
If not, use the code at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm attached
to a toolbar button to update your fields.

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[Guest]

Hi Jackie, already tried that and still no joy - thanks anyway.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Graham I will have a go at your macro and let you know if it works

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure that your cross-references are fields? Use Alt+F9 to toggle the
display. If you don't see a REF field, then either the references were
inserted as plain text or the fields have been unlinked. It's also possible
the fields are locked.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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[Guest]

Thanks for your reply, the cross references are fields but I think the
problem is the document itself, as cross referencing works on other
documents. This document was originally Word and then WordPerfect and now
Word again!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Conversion from WP to Word is always a crap shoot. I recently saw a document
converted from WP that had hundreds of footnotes that Word evidently
recognized and treated as footnotes--more or less--even though they were not
in the standard format, nor could a new footnote be inserted in the series.
It was quite bizarre.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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