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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2004PAGEREF Always shows 1
Suppose I select text inside a Word 2000 Text Box, and define it as a bookmark named "MyCaption". (The selected text is actually a caption for what's inside the text box.) Next, in another part of the document, I type: "See {REF MyCaption \* MERGEFORMAT}, Page { PAGEREF MyCaption \* MERGEFORMAT }" where the stuff between {} isn't typed, it's actually inserted by using Insert | Field from the menu. When I turn off field codes with Alt-F9, the REF field appears correctly, but the PAGEREF field always displays "1" even though the bookmark occurs on page 5. Anyone know what's up with this? Word can't see or properly handle text in a text box. Can you use a frame instead? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Suppose I select text inside a Word 2000 Text Box, and > define it as a bookmark named "MyCaption". (The selected [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > displays "1" even though the bookmark occurs on page 5. > Anyone know what's up with this? Bonjour, Dans son message, < Roger Aikin > ?crivait : In this message, < Roger Aikin > wrote: || Suppose I select text inside a Word 2000 Text Box, and || define it as a bookmark named "MyCaption". (The selected [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] || displays "1" even though the bookmark occurs on page 5. || Anyone know what's up with this? If I remember correctly, you cannot use PAGEREF to refer to a bookmark inside a text box, as you have found out! Normally I use frames to do this knid of stuff. Select the text box that contains the bookmark, get to the text box propertry dialog (Format > Text box...), select the Text box tab, and convert the text box to a frame. You may have to reformat it a bit... And if you have never worked with frames, well, they are slightly different from Text boxes. One good thing about frames is that they can be part of the style definition. If you are going to use that type of text very often, select the whole text delimited by the frame and create a style based on that selection. Later, all you have to do is apply the style to some text to transform it into a frame... Good luck! Signature-- Salut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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