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Old August 19th, 2009, 10:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default Cross-referencing pages/headings from a different Word document using RD

RD fields can only be used with TOCs and indexes, I'm afraid.

What you can do is the following: In the source document (your training
manual), place the insertion point in the header for example. Then press
Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type SET myref and then insert a
cross-reference to the page number of your heading. You will see something
similar to { SET myref 4 } (where the 4 in this example is the referenced
page number). Press F9 to update the field. Use Alt+F9 to show/hide field
codes.

In the target (session plan), insert the following INCLUDETEXT field: {
INCLUDETEXT "C:\\folder1\\folder2\\docnamehere.doc" myref \! }. (Notice that
you should use double backslashes to separate folder and file names.)

Repeat the above procedure for each additional cross-reference that you
need. Of course, you will have to pick a different variable name than
"myref" for the second and subsequent SET fields.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"cmd" wrote in message
...
I am trying to write Session plans for a course I'm teaching. I have a
training manual and want to reference page numbers from the training
manual into the session planner. What I want is if I make a change in
the training manual and thus changing the page numbering to reflect
that automatically in the session plans.
I am familiar with the RD Fields and can import a TOC into the session
plans. But when I try to insert a cross-reference into the session
plan, the same Headings that are shown in the TOC are not available in
the cross-references.
Is there any way Word can do this?
I'm using Word 2003.

Cheers,
Christos