RE: Word 2003 - formatting cross-ref text

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

What you're overlooking is using StyleRef for your field.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 

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> Subject: Word 2003 - formatting cross-ref text
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> I recently stumbled across a forum message thread where 
> somebody wanted
> to exclude (i.e., not import) the formatting of the referred paragraph
> or text when the referring cross-ref is displayed. In other words, the
> person wanted the cross-ref to keep the formatting of the paragraph in
> which it is embeded, rather than importing the formatting of 
> the heading
> or other text to which it pointed.
> 
>  
> 
> Hm.
> 
>  
> 
> Well this is silly....   I find myself wanting just the opposite. I
> created some cross-refs to table captions, and they look too much like
> the surrounding paragraph text. I'd like them to bring in the 
> formatting
> of the captions that they point to, so they'll stand out a bit. Or
> failing that, I'd like to at least be able to select the 
> field and apply
> "Italic" or something to the displayed text. Can't seem to do it.  I
> right-click the field, click "Font", and select "Italic", OK 
> out... and
> it just sits there looking at me, with the same formatting as the rest
> of the paragraph.  If I use "Edit Field", the only "Format" option
> appears to be capitalization, which is not what I was looking for.
> 


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