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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
MSWord 2003
300 page document with graphics Trying to select all and update all fields. It doesn't work. I can update by right-clicking on the TOC and update field, but why can't I do it by selecting all? I want the cross-references to update as well. Thanks |
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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
random guess--the cross-references are inside captions and/or inside
text boxes of some sort. When you hit select all, I'm not sure it applies to text boxes. It definitely doesn't apply to headers or footers or footnotes. Instead, try switching into Print Preview and back (making sure that Tools | Options | Print has "update fields" checked) and then Word will handle finding the necessary fields. yepp wrote: MSWord 2003 300 page document with graphics Trying to select all and update all fields. It doesn't work. I can update by right-clicking on the TOC and update field, but why can't I do it by selecting all? I want the cross-references to update as well. Thanks |
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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
On Oct 28, 7:49 am, Daiya Mitchell
wrote: random guess--the cross-references are inside captions and/or inside text boxes of some sort. When you hit select all, I'm not sure it applies to text boxes. It definitely doesn't apply to headers or footers or footnotes. Instead, try switching into Print Preview and back (making sure that Tools | Options | Print has "update fields" checked) and then Word will handle finding the necessary fields. yepp wrote: MSWord 2003 300 page document with graphics Trying to select all and update all fields. It doesn't work. I can update by right-clicking on the TOC and update field, but why can't I do it by selecting all? I want the cross-references to update as well. Thanks- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No, not in text boxes or anything... Why wouldn't this work? I have always used Ctrl+A+F9 key to update a document. |
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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
no idea. Does switching into Print Preview and back update all fields?
yepp wrote: No, not in text boxes or anything... Why wouldn't this work? I have always used Ctrl+A+F9 key to update a document. |
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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
Hi yepp,
You need to use Ctrl-A to select the whole document, then release the Ctrl key before pressing F9 - otherwise you risk turning the whole document into one big field (maybe you've already done that) .... in which case you'll need to copy the contents of the document out of the field again, then delete the empty field. Two other possibilities: 1. Are you sure you haven't converted the fields to plain text? Check by pressing Alt-F9 - any true fields will be delimited by pairs of field braces (ie '{ }'). 2. Could you have locked the fields via Ctrl-F11? Try pressing Ctrl-Shift-F11 to make sure they're unlocked. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message ... random guess--the cross-references are inside captions and/or inside text boxes of some sort. When you hit select all, I'm not sure it applies to text boxes. It definitely doesn't apply to headers or footers or footnotes. Instead, try switching into Print Preview and back (making sure that Tools | Options | Print has "update fields" checked) and then Word will handle finding the necessary fields. yepp wrote: MSWord 2003 300 page document with graphics Trying to select all and update all fields. It doesn't work. I can update by right-clicking on the TOC and update field, but why can't I do it by selecting all? I want the cross-references to update as well. Thanks |
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CTRL+A+F9 does not work
On Oct 30, 7:08 am, "macropod" wrote:
Hi yepp, You need to use Ctrl-A to select the whole document, then release the Ctrl key before pressing F9 - otherwise you risk turning the whole document into one big field (maybe you've already done that) .... in which case you'll need to copy the contents of the document out of the field again, then delete the empty field. Two other possibilities: 1. Are you sure you haven't converted the fields to plain text? Check by pressing Alt-F9 - any true fields will be delimited by pairs of field braces (ie '{ }'). 2. Could you have locked the fields via Ctrl-F11? Try pressing Ctrl-Shift-F11 to make sure they're unlocked. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in . .. random guess--the cross-references are inside captions and/or inside text boxes of some sort. When you hit select all, I'm not sure it applies to text boxes. It definitely doesn't apply to headers or footers or footnotes. Instead, try switching into Print Preview and back (making sure that Tools | Options | Print has "update fields" checked) and then Word will handle finding the necessary fields. yepp wrote: MSWord 2003 300 page document with graphics Trying to select all and update all fields. It doesn't work. I can update by right-clicking on the TOC and update field, but why can't I do it by selecting all? I want the cross-references to update as well. Thanks- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I had it locked. macropod wrote " 2. Could you have locked the fields via Ctrl-F11? Try pressing Ctrl-Shift-F11 to make sure they're unlocked. " this worked. Thank you so much. This was driving me crazy. |
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