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Subject:Re: Word problem: x-refs and heading styles From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:57:29 -0400
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From: "Kane, Beth" <Beth -dot- Kane -at- ncslearn -dot- com>
>
> In Word 2000, I want to add cross-references to some headings whose styles
I
> created. However, the heading I want to refer to doesn't appear in the
> Cross-reference dialog box. The online help for this problem says:
> "The Cross-reference dialog box displays only headings that are formatted
> with a built-in heading style," meaning headings that come with the
standard
> Word template.
>
> How insane is this?!? I can't use cross-refs unless I use MS built-in
> styles? Tell me it isn't true. Do you know a way around this?
The terminology may be misleading here. Headings 1 through 9 are "built-in"
styles, but all that means is that you cannot *delete* them from templates.
You can make them into whatever style you want. (It is for this reason that
we always used Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3 for our headings, instead
of creating styles with new names.)
What you can quickly do is COPY an existing style and give it the name of a
built-in style. That will solve your problem.
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