RE: Word 2007 cross-references

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Actually, I would hope not.

Sometimes I use cross-references to bookmarks to maintain consistent naming for GUI items or product components.  These things are formatted in a specific way that I do not want overridden by hyperlink format, even if I make the cross-reference a hyperlink.  Sometimes I do want readers to be able to hyperlink to the original description of the GUI item or whatever.

As someone else said, there's a switch on the cross-reference field thing to govern whether the formatting stays linked to the text being cross-referenced or not.

This way, every use case is accommodated.  You can use the switch to let the formatting be overridden.  I can use the switch to make sure it is not.  

And I'm happy that hyperlinks outside the current document can easily be made to look one way, while cross-reference/hyperlinks inside the document can be made to look another way.

-  Jessica



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Fri 10/2/2009 5:01 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Word 2007 cross-references
 
The Word 2007 cross-reference dialog contains only:

"Reference type" drop-down
"Insert reference" to drop-down
"Insert as hyperlink" checkbox
"Separate numbers with" checkbox and field
"For which numbered item" text box

Logically, checking the "Insert as hyperlink" box would format the
cross-reference to match the other hyperlinks.


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