Trouble when updating cross-references to other document

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Hi,

I am using word 2002 SP3 (office XP) and I am having trouble with
cross-references to items that are in other document. Fistly I insert the
whole other document using INSERT TEXT (as a link) and it works fine. I can
insert cross-references to the items of a numbered list in the source doc.
But when I select all (ctrl+A) and press F9 for the second time the cross
references get wrong, I mean they turn in to the error message "source not
found" as if I had deleted the source items.

Is it a bug ? Is there any other way to build those cross-references ? I
have also tried it on word2007 and it didn't work neither.

Thank you very much.
 
Try creating a named bookmark (Insert->Bookmark) in your source file. In the
target file, insert an X-ref to your named bookmark instead of another
reference type such as "numbered item" or "heading". Hope that helps.
 
Hi Jose,

thank you for your tip, it worked fine, but it does not seem to be pratical
to my purpose. I have a long numbered list of bibliographical references in a
source file. I need to make some references the numbered items in each
chapter file. This list isn't ready, I use to include, change position, etc.
of the items.

I could add a bookmark for each reference (dozens) but they are not dragged
with the copy and paste command, etc. when I am editing the list. They are
difficult to deal with.

Is there other pactical way to do that ?

Thank you a lot.
 
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