Any way to xref nonHeading styles in Word 2003?

[boswrit]

I've created my own versions of Heading2 and Heading3 so that the different
versions (Heading2/Heading2Custom and Heading3/Heading3Custom) can be handled
differently during export to a different format (online help).

Is there any way -- including macros -- that I can create xrefs to my
Heading2Custom and Heading3Custom styles such that those xrefs that will
a) incorporate the heading text automatically (as happens when I xref the
built-in Heading2 and Heading3) and b) update the heading text automatically
if/when that text changes?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless your headings are numbered (in which case they will be "Numbered
items"), you'll have to explicitly bookmark them. That's just one more
reason we recommend using the built-in heading styles. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/UseBuiltInHeadingStyles.html

 

[boswrit]

Hi, Suzanne.

Reading your reply (to always use the built-in Heading styles) made me
realize that I can take a couple unused Heading styles, say Heading8 and
Heading9, and use them in place of my "custom" versions.

I'd like them to modify Heading8 and Heading9 to be at paragraph levels 2
and 3 , but Word doesn't permit that. On consideration, though, I'll give up
a tidy Outline View and Document Map to get the automatic xrefs.

Thank you very much.
Kevin McDonough