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Your findings surprises me, even though I realize that Word does
things in weird ways...

There's no way that a marker of type "Index" can result in a
workable link to another place in the document. So, either
there are multiple markers in the same place, or the text "<XREF>"
is indeed a FrameMaker cross-reference. The problem is that a
FM cross-ref always picks up the contents of the cross-ref'd
text or paragraph, so I cannot understand how all your cross-refs
from Word could say "<XREF>".

Are the "<XREF>" texts cross-refs? (double-click to see if you
get the cross-ref dialog) What is the definition of the cross-
ref format used?

Are the Index markers you find placed directly in front of the
"<XREF>" text, or where in the text are they located?

The "by-pasting" method I described would only work if you managed
to get rid of the "<XREF>" texts. It was not intended to change
the format of the "<XREF>" text, but the format of the (presumed)
hypertext marker.

By your description I get the following idea on how your link looks:

AA. See [Index marker][Cross-ref saying "<XREF>"][Underlined text
"Adipic acid" using some character format].

If not, try to describe how it looks.

/Thomas