Re: Word 2007 cross-references

Subject: Re: Word 2007 cross-references
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:49:37 -0700

If you read my first post in this thread, I originally tried
hyperlinks, but they don't update automatically.

And as I noted later, I did specifically apply a blue+underlined
style, and it didn't have any effect.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> Our PDFs are used for what PDFs were originally designed for, to transfer
> formatted documents to print vendors.  We do provide PDFs if someone wants them,
> but we do not carry over Word links to them, they just have PDF bookmarks.  The
> only reason we would insert a cross-reference as a hyperlink in the Word DOC
> would be so that we can click it to verify it is correctly tied to its reference
> and there will not be an error in the printed book or PDF.  If I insert
> something into a paragraph with a style tag of "Body" or "Heading," I expect it
> to look exactly as the formatting for that style dictates unless I specifically
> format it otherwise.
>
> If you want hyperlinks that look like hyperlinks, why insert cross-references in
> the first place?  Just insert hyperlinks.
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Word 2007 cross-references: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Combs, Richard
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Dan Goldstein
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Robert Lauriston
Re: Word 2007 cross-references: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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