cross referencing words !

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dazlia

Hi Folks !

I wander if someone could help me please?

What im trying to do is to make two words (obvioulsy there will b
more) link together so that if i edit one word it will automaticall
update the other word in the same document, but not nessesarily th
same page.

Does anyone know if this is possible and if so could someone pleas
take a few minutes out and send me an example word document t
(e-mail address removed) ?

Any help would be much appreciated !

Many thanks

Darre
 
This is usually done with bookmarks and ref fields or styleref fields. The
latter maybe a more robust option. Create a unique character style based on
the underlying style and apply it to the Word or phrase you want to repeat -
then use a Styleref field to place the content of that style. The problem
with bookmarks is that they are all to easily overwritten.

Neither field will update automatically, but a macro will fix that - use the
update macro at http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

If the only changes are to be the words in question, then use form fields in
conjunction with REF fields. These will update if you set the calculate on
exit check box in the form field properties, but they restrict access to the
rest of the document.


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If you have the first word in a formfield, it will have a bookmark name
automatically assigned to it. If, at the other location in the document,
you insert a cross reference to the text of the bookmark and you check the
calculate on exit property of the formfield, the whenever you change the
information in the formfield, the cross reference will be updated. The
document will need to be protected for forms for this to happen.

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Hope this helps
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