Multiple document cross references

Thanks macropod,

I tried your idea but it still brings in the entire text
of the numbered heading using a bookmark. I just want
the heading reference number. I don't see any switches
that would help.

I have a long document with a numbered outline using
headings. I have a separate but related long document
with a different numbered outline. I need to match up
the outline points by referencing back to the first
document using the original document's numbered headings
because the outline will be updated and I don't want to
manually have to track the references. I'm beginning to
lose hope here.




Subject: Multiple document cross references
From: "macropod" Sent: 7/30/2004
2:53:16 PM


Hi LAP,

"heading number only"? If you mean a numbered heading, an
INCLUDETEXT field
will pull that across if you bookmark it.

Another option, which will build a TOC based on the
headings in a number of
source documents, is the RD field. You may be able to set
up a set of TOCs
in your target document formatted as you'd like them to
appear and use RD
fields pointing to each of the source documents to bring
just the headings
over.

Cheers


"LAP" wrote in
message
...
Thanks for the tip about master documents. INCLUDETEXT
field won't work because it will only insert the text of
a bookmarked item and I want to insert the heading
number
only. It seems like this would be a commonly needed
functionality.


-----Original Message-----
Hi LAP,

First: avoid Word's master documents like the plague.
They'll only cause you
grief in the long run, because there are only two
types:
those that have
corrupted and those that will corrupt.

Yes, you can import multiple source documents, or
portions of them, into a
target document, using the INCLUDETEXT field. Look for
INCLUDETEXT in
Word's help file. One problem you may still encounter
is
that numbered paras
in the source documents will get re-numbered in the
target document to suit
whatever numbering scheme the target document uses. The
only real way of
overcoming that is to make sure that the style names
used to number paras in
the source documents differ from the style names used
in
the target
document.

Cheers

"LAP" wrote in
message
...
I am using Word 2002 and I have several documents
that
are formatted with numbered headings (outline). I
would
like to reference particular heading numbers across
documents so that if the outline changes in one
document
the references update in the other document. I tried
to
put all of them in a master document but when I
created
the cross reference it displayed a 0.

Is this even possible?

Thanks



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