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Subject:Refering to images was RE: Elementwise userguide From:"Kay A. Pentecost" <kayp -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com> To:Tech Whirl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:50:55 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Thank you so much!! "Exhibit" might be because it's a government doc, but no one here seems to know. <grin>
Kay
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>From: Lynne Wright <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- tiburoninc -dot- com>
>Sent: Jan 10, 2013 1:48 PM
>To: "Kay A. Pentecost" <kayp -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com>, Ken Stitzel <kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com>, Tech Whirl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: Elementwise userguide
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>"Exhibit"? really? That sounds ultra arcane scientific... I think other people have been using "Figure" since about 1902.
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>In Word, if you set numbering properties for Figure titles, you can indeed add cross-references that link to the page number. (in the [Word7] Cross-reference dialog, set Reference type to Numbered item; then set Insert reference to: to Page number).
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=tiburoninc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lynne -dot- wright=tiburoninc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Kay A. Pentecost
>Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:03 PM
>To: Ken Stitzel; Tech Whirl
>Subject: Re: Elementwise userguide
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>Hi, Everybody,
>
>What is the standard now for referring to images in the file? Word won't make a link to a page number, and I've been using (see above) when the image is above the text.
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>Also, for User Manual type documents, are people now using "Figure" for captions? The document I inherited uses "Exhibit."
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>Thanks in advance!
>
>Kay Pentecost
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