bond@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Bond) (02/13/90)
Does anyone know if Word (4.0) is capable of numbering figure captions and references in text to the figure captions? Any mention of this is conspicuously absent from the Word reference manual (Microsoft Press) however, figures and references to figures abound in this document. (Sometimes I think I should stick with LaTeX!). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Bond -----> bond@sce.carleton.ca (613) 788 5743 Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Bond -----> bond@sce.carleton.ca (613) 788 5743 Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
barry@playfair.STANFORD.EDU (barry) (02/15/90)
In article <780@sce.carleton.ca> bond@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Bond) writes: > >Does anyone know if Word (4.0) is capable of numbering figure captions and >references in text to the figure captions? Any mention of this is >conspicuously absent from the Word reference manual (Microsoft Press) >however, figures and references to figures abound in this document. >(Sometimes I think I should stick with LaTeX!). There is no built-in support for this, but is is possible to do by using the mail-merge facility in conjunction with an external utility which keeps the reference lists and dumps them out in an appropriate format. Two shareware packages that do this are Scholar's Aid and WordRef. Both should be available from the info-mac archives on sumex.stanford.edu, as well as from other purveyors of fine p.d. ware. Barry Eynon barry@playfair.stanford.edu -ARPA ...!decwrl!shasta!playfair!barry -USENET
esf00@uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) (02/15/90)
In article <780@sce.carleton.ca> bond@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Bond) writes: > >Does anyone know if Word (4.0) is capable of numbering figure captions and >references in text to the figure captions? Barely. In fact, Word 4 is busy compiling a list of figures in a document of mine as I write this. The figure captions are done by using table-of-contents level 9 as the hidden-text tag. Then its real easy (I didn't say intuitively obvious) to use Table of Contents on levels 9 through 9 to generate (or regenerate) the table of figures. Piece of (slightly stale) cake. Now as to referring to figures whose numbers move around a lot, I dunno. I think you'll have to mail merge them. Why not use Word the way it was designed? :-) A picture is worth a thousand words, so start typing ... -- Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 [the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] [the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]
man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) (02/16/90)
In article <780@sce.carleton.ca> bond@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Bond) writes: > >Does anyone know if Word (4.0) is capable of numbering figure captions and >references in text to the figure captions? Any mention of this is >conspicuously absent from the Word reference manual (Microsoft Press) >however, figures and references to figures abound in this document. The documentation doesn't mention it, because it doesn't do it. However, there is a shareware package called WordRef (the current released version is 1.3) which does exactly that. It is available for anonymous ftp from sumex and also appeared in comp.sys.mac a while back. If you have trouble finding it, mail me and I'll send it directly to you. >(Sometimes I think I should stick with LaTeX!). WordRef also handles BibTeX bibliographic databases, even if you're not using it in conjunction with Word. --Mark Disclaimer: I'm a satisfied user of WordRef; so what if I'm also the author?