Re: Using Word Crossrefs vs. bookmarks

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

It's not a question of "Crossrefs vs. bookmarks," "cross-references or the 
bookmarks," or "the advantage of bookmarks over cross-refs."

Cross-references work fine.  The question is what you use as the target of 
the cross-references.

Cross-references to headings can get messed up if you rearrange the text. 
I don't know of anything you can do about that.

Cross-references to bookmarks get messed up if you inadvertently add text 
within the bookmark delimiters.  That's not likely, and you can avoid it by 
displaying bookmarks as the default setting.

With either kind of target, you have to pick the target out of a list.

With either kind of target, you can easily create cross-references of the 
form "See So-and-so on page X" that change automatically to "See So-and-so 
below" (or "above") if the cross-reference and target are on the same page.

Sure, you have to create a bookmark at the heading, and that's an extra 
step.  After that, it's no harder to use a bookmark than a heading, and the 
predictability and dependability are well worth the minute extra effort.

--David

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