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> To my way of thinking, a cross-reference isn't an insertion
> of a bunch of
> text at another location, but a reference *to* the text at
> that locations...
I assumed that k k wanted to include a bunch of text, since she referred to
(shudder) master documents. INCLUDETEXT will do that for ya.
> To create the latter (which is what I think of as a
> cross-reference), you
> want to put a bookmark around the text of the "Adding a
> printer" heading,
> then insert two REF fields that use it as the target--one REF
> field for the
> text and one for the page number. Those are both REF fields, with
> different switches.
> I haven't used REF fields to refer to bookmarks in other documents.
That's because you can't. If I'm not mistaken, only the HYPERLINK,
INCLUDEPICTURE, INCLUDETEXT, LINK, and RD fields can refer to other
documents.
