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Subject:Re: Word: XRef Problem From:Geri Lou Ciotoli <GCIOTOLI -at- ECS-INC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:57:54 -0400
I have this happen to me all the time. Record a little macro to do the
following:
- replaces the space between see and Figure with a non-breaking
space
- replaces the dash between the numbers with a non-breaking dash
That way, when you finish the entire chapter, you run the macro, and in
one-second, all the instances are fixed so there is no break in the entire
phrase.
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Geri Lou Ciotoli
Dataline8000 Technical Communicator
Enterprise Computer Systems, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Fraser [SMTP:tekwrite -at- ISTAR -dot- CA]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 9:18 AM
> Subject: Word: XRef Problem
>
> Has anyone ever run across this problem?
> I have some text with a cross reference to a figure. For example
>
> ...this is some text (see Figure 3-1) ...more text.
>
> The problem is that a line break keeps getting inserted after "see" so
> that
> the text looks like this:
>
> ...this is some text (see
> Figure 3-1) ...more text
>
> Anyone have a solution? TIA!
> I've checked the MS online support, but can't find anything about this
> problem.
>
> J. L. Fraser
> Technical Writer
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