Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Automatically updating cross-reference info in footnote or endnote

If you insert document information using the cross-reference function of MS word, information such as page number or heading title could be inserted automatically in the main texts or in the footnote/endnote section.

Cross-reference
You have to be careful though because the automatically inserted information such as page number does not get updated "automatically" after you make changes to the file.  To demonstrate it to you, I deleted the first 10 pages of my file but the information in the footnote remained the same.

footnote
It's easy to get the issue resolve.

First, put the cursor inside of the footnote section and select all (ctrl+A).
Second, press F9 and a window will pop up warning you that the action is irreversible.


After you press yes, the information will get refreshed, and the updated and correct information will be shown.


So ... select all and F9. That's it.

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