Cross references and Microsoft Word
Posted: 2007-10-21 22:14:24
Hello all,
I just wanted to see if people were having the same issues as I am. Basically, I can't get cross references to truly work with Microsoft Word.
First, I can create a document with NWP in RTF or DOC format, add footnotes, then add cross references to previous footnotes. I do this for any legal document I'm working on. Works great. I can then open the document in Word, and the footnotes are correctly formatted, including the cross reference's proper reference to previous footnotes. Let's say, in footnote #6, I wrote <i>See fn #1</i>, and the "1" is a cross reference to footnote #1, this will properly display in MS Word. The character, "1," however, is the actual character, not the footnote reference, so if my footnote #1 ends up being footnote #3 after I make more changes to the document, the cross references don't update, as they are no longer cross references. This certainly makes it impossible to share my documents with other writers.
Second, if I import a document from Microsoft Word that contains cross references, they are simply missing in NWP.
Has anyone else experienced this, and will it change?
Thanks,
Matt
I just wanted to see if people were having the same issues as I am. Basically, I can't get cross references to truly work with Microsoft Word.
First, I can create a document with NWP in RTF or DOC format, add footnotes, then add cross references to previous footnotes. I do this for any legal document I'm working on. Works great. I can then open the document in Word, and the footnotes are correctly formatted, including the cross reference's proper reference to previous footnotes. Let's say, in footnote #6, I wrote <i>See fn #1</i>, and the "1" is a cross reference to footnote #1, this will properly display in MS Word. The character, "1," however, is the actual character, not the footnote reference, so if my footnote #1 ends up being footnote #3 after I make more changes to the document, the cross references don't update, as they are no longer cross references. This certainly makes it impossible to share my documents with other writers.
Second, if I import a document from Microsoft Word that contains cross references, they are simply missing in NWP.
Has anyone else experienced this, and will it change?
Thanks,
Matt