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In article <aadjan.750691726@galaxy> aadjan@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Aadjan van der Helm) writes:
>Hello
>
>We have been using Word for 5 years now (at least one of the gold taps on
>Bill Gates's jacuzzy has been funded by our group) and most of the time we
>liked the program. We use Word to write large scientific documents, typical
>dimensions: +/- 150 pages, 10 chapters, 40 pictures.
>
>A few versions back we said to ourselves: "ok the next version of Word will
>contain functionality to maintain references in the text". Which would
>enable us to add and remove figures/paragraphs while most of the references
>remain valid. To date we are very disappointed.
>
>If you create documents like ours:
>    -how do you handle references in your text?
>    -how do you handle figure and equation numbering?

I think I interpret the first part of this differently then some others
have.  I take the "references" to be references to figures and equations
also defined in the text--not bibliographical references.

As you have already found, Word, by itself, isn't too great in this
department, but there are two things you can do to reduce your own trouble.

1) Number your equations, figures, etc. so that the chapter number precedes
   the figure number.  (e.g., Figure 10.3 or 10-3)  This way, when you make
   a change, it only affects a single chapter.

2) Whenever you reference an equation, figure, etc., in the text, paste
   a link to the number used at the equation, figure, etc. (i.e., the caption).
   This way, when you make changes, you can just go through and change
   the figure numbers (or equation numbers) in the captions.  The references
   in the text are automatically updated (even across different files), and
   you don't have to scan for every reference.


There are also solutions involving additional software, that others have
already mentioned.  I thought I'd add thoughts on how to minimize the
problem relying solely on Word, itself...


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