Cross References Won't Update

[trh217]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I am writing my University reports at present, and my references have updated happily all the way through, until I realised that my cross references hadn't.

The only way I could find to update them was to go through and individually update them all.

Is there a quicker way that I haven't found yet?

 

[CyberTaz]

One Option: Command+A (Select All), then Control/Right-Click a
cross-reference & select Update Field.

Also, if you enable Update Fields in Word> Preferences> Print the
cross-references will update if you simply switch to Print Preview.

Cross-references, Indexes & Tables of Contents, Figures, etc. are fields
that do not dynamically update. Footnotes/Endnotes & Bookmarks do.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Michel Bintener]

You can also update every field in a Word document by using the following
AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Word"
update field every field of active document
end tell

Simply copy the lines above into a new AppleScript Editor window and run it.
You can also save it in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Word Script Menu
Items, and it will be available from within Word (just click on the black
scroll icon in the menu bar). I don't recall who posted this originally; it
is not mine, so all credit goes to the unknown author.

Optional, but insanely useful: when naming your AppleScript, add "\c"
(without the quotation marks), followed by any letter. If you open a
document in Word and hit Ctrl (that's what the "\c" is for) plus the letter
you have just added to the name, the script will be triggered via this
keyboard shortcut. In my case, the script is called "Update fields\cu.scpt",
so whenever I hit Ctrl+u in Word, all the fields are updated immediately.