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I am writing large manuals (200+) in Microsoft Word 2010. I have many internal links and cross-references in these manuals.
If I create a cross-reference to a section, and then move the section that is being referenced, the cross-reference sometimes gets broken. Instead of displaying the heading number and text that I originally inserted for the reference (for example, refer to section 1.1.1. Fake Section), it replaces the heading number with a 0, and dumps all of the content from the referenced section into my cross-reference.
I have noticed this happening in previous versions of Word as well. I usually catch it by scrolling through the document with field shading turned on (you can easily find entire sections that have been dumped into a reference, because there will be pages and pages of content with grey field shading around it).
Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I could do to prevent it from happening again in the future?
Ben Davies
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