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There is a shareware package called "WordRef", which does pretty much
what you want.  It consists of a Hypercard stack, a browser DA, and an
application.  The stack is used to maintain bibliographies, which can
be exported to BibTeX format, if you like.  The DA allows one to scan
through a bibliography while using Word.  The application does the
real work --- it scans through (possibly multiple) Word files (saved
with "Fast Save" off) and builds auxilliary files for
cross-references, citations, numbered figures, titles, tables, etc.
Then, you use the Word mail-merge command to produce the final
product.  One catch is that it is compatible with Word 3.x, not 4.x.
Not too great a loss for me, since I consider Word 4 to be a dog.

I have been investigating FullWrite Professional lately.  It looks
very good, and does almost everything one might want, except that its
bibliography capabilities are pathetic.  Almost no flexibility in
citation format, and actual entries would have to be hand-reformatted
(not to mention that you have to manually delete or enter them in).
Also, you'd have to use Expressionist or something for equations (then
again, Word's equations are kinda ugly, anyway).  I still haven't
figured out if its possible to have a table of contents, list of
figures, etc, or if everything would just go into the table of
contents.  However, there have been consistent rumors about an
upgrade, and one can only hope that FullWrite will be the first
WYSIWYG program to give us everything we need...
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