Automatic Cross References in Microsoft Word

[@nelsonfu8390]

Thanks so much for this video! Here is a summary for those a bit short on time: Format painter [5:09] (select text with appropriate formatting -> format painter button) Captioning tables [9:12] (right click -> insert caption dialogue) Captioning figures [10:40] (right click -> insert caption dialogue) Automatic cross-referencing [12:01] (References tab -> Cross-reference) Shortcut to cross-reference [14:03] (press Alt -> follow the tooltips) Updating the document to reflect changes [18:01] (Ctrl-A -> select a field and then update)

[@discoal100]

What a fantastic tutorial. I didn't realise this was all possible. Thank you.

[@MrJacojakes]

Thank you, this saved me days of work

[@CADmodel]

Thank you. It was very helpful

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful. I have another video covering how to create automatic bibliographies/references. Please feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for watching!

[@mahbubhasan7168]

thanks a ton!!! It really helped!

[@narendrabasel4723]

Thanks it's helpfull for me

[@ruyfernandez]

Question. What if I want my figures to be named "Figure 1..." but when I refer to them I want to call them "Fig. 1"?

[@rohananturkar8]

A real nice way to explain.Thankyou!

[@nannyophelie3517]

It starts at 12:03

[@yuki_sama]

Thanks!!

[@mercysamuel1838]

very helpful

[@Our1stPlanet]

The what not to do is superflous.

[@Tobi_Jones]

skip the first half of this video to get to the actual content

[@marcinsist]

Dear Christopher, Thank you very much. It was very helpful.

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[@fangshizhu9383]

Thanks! One question: if in the figure caption, the first letter is the upper case as "Figure 1. xxxxxx", but when citing the figure in text, I want to cross reference as lower-case (even with a different font) as "see figure 1 shown below", how can I do that automatically without manually changing the first letter. Is there a way to format the in-text citation/cross reference format that will retain after unpdate the field?

[@margaretdavis2627]

In the same dialogue where you can choose whether it's going to be a figure label or a table label, you can also define your own label. I would just define one as "figure" with a lower-case f.

[@cooltier6174]

thanks man for this amazing guide, I want to know If I can change cross-reference figure from "Figure #" to "Fig #."

[@hanle6517]

What if my partner did not reference 10 pages of the doc (more than 50 numbers need to be crossed reference) and when I combine my doc with him, it is a mess! what should I do?

[@jdavid7613]

Thank you so so much. I got it through your video. God bless you

[@prafulchopra8155]

This video was very helpful. Thank you.

[@coolmanu55]

if I copy some data in a word sub-section, how can we format everything from an existing sub-section to the new one ? can we do that ?

[@jamesbeckett9917]

Helpful, thanks!

[@timwillson4005]

Very helpful, but please try to limit the number of times you say "go ahead"

[@sandraarsenault6743]

Well done! You have great talent of providing an easy to follow video full of excellent information.

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful. There are other similar videos on the channel please feel free to check them out and let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching!

[@roxbittman]

This is so awesome! Thank you for the clear explanation!

[@kinesiology-moves9598]

Thank you so much. Great video, well explained. Found it very helpful that you also showed the common mistake, and what to when figures and tables get shuffled around. I just wish I had known this years ago.

[@RIDDONS]

Has anyone here actually used this stuff though?

[@jasminehathaway358]

Thanks! This was very helpful!

[@connorliebert9964]

Very helpful! Will be using in future

[@purplespark8]

Good and well explained.. but I have to say it wasn't useful to me as I already know about this. What I want to find is a way to quickly cross reference. I find it really hectic always having to go to Insert/Cross reference etc. Also, the right hand side drop down always seems to default to Entrire Caption. Is there a way to speed it all up? Thanks

[@phreakyphoenix]

The method here is definitely much faster, using bookmarks and keyboard shortcuts, but it is not going to update the references if the order of the citations etc changes, I'm not sure that's what you want but sharing it in case it helps blog.carlsrm.tech/research%20tips/research/paper%20formatting/2020/11/12/Add-cross-referencing-in-your-paper-pdfs-created-with-MS-Word.html

[@tutsecret499]

When you save this document with cross reference, bookmarks, table of contents, hyperlinks, e-mail, etc into PDF, are these features preserved or they disappear in pdf format?

[@neekerbreeker]

Thank you!!! I needed to quickly learn how to do this for work and your video saved me.

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful. There is a related video on the channel. Please feel free to check it out and I would love to hear what you think in the comments. Thanks for watching!

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[@ChristopherLum]

Hi, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@helencarson2972]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@gorawgoshu8592]

Thank you! Very helpful

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful thanks for watching

[@jibreelkhan]

What an absolute legend!

[@emelia7690]

this was really helpful!

[@Angeprof]

That was GREAT!!! I've been making an effort to move away from relying on templates to do my work. Sometimes we do things that affect the template and then have to rely on someone else to fix it. I hate that. I want to be able to do it myself. Thank you for your help.

[@MizanurRahmanITA]

Thank you so much... Great help.. Great presentation

[@tutsecret499]

Thank you very much.

[@bengibbons3424]

Amazing video as always!

[@makfathi52]

Thanks for sharing . I was doing it the wrong way all the time until I thought ... wait a second, there must be a better way.

[@wazieal-qadri5718]

This video is very helpful. thank you a lot

[@ChristopherLum]

I'm glad it was helpful thanks for watching!

[@phugoid]

Excellent although anyone watching should skip the first 9 minutes :)

[@21Arrozito]

This is a nice video but it took a wee bit too long to get to the point, time codes would be helpful.

[@marcythiemet5125]

I am sure you must get tired of hearing it but THIS WAS GREAT!! THANK YOU!!!

[@hectorregala7777]

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[@mohamedtebbo123]

Yup , as always Brilliant Video !!! Keep it up !!

[@Michael-to9nt]

Life saver! Thank you :)

[@ChristopherLum]

Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching!

[@yengyangnaotou9590]

Thank you so much Christopher Lum ! your video help me a lot !

[@tanmaykolhatkar8407]

Is there any way to cross reference equations as well? I use # followed by equation number to mark my equations but never found a way to cross reference them like figures and tables

[@phreakyphoenix]

Using the method below you can cross-reference them using bookmarks, but if the equation number updates, the reference won't auto-update. blog.carlsrm.tech/research%20tips/research/paper%20formatting/2020/11/12/Add-cross-referencing-in-your-paper-pdfs-created-with-MS-Word.html

[@aravindsp9425]

Good information. Can we cross refer automatically if the tables and figures comes under subsections, like Table 2.1.6 or Figure 3.1.4 ?

[@nuothe11th]

Yup. There's an option involving "nest under chapter" or something like that.

[@florencesimataa8052]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you

[@TheBlackPiraka]

Good to know for write-ups and other future documents

[@zulfiqarali-bb5kb]

👍👍

[@anthonyogwo1805]

Thanks, it was really helpful.

[@inderaputra2846]

Thank you so much for this short cuts, as i had the biggest headache of all doing this sort of editing to my documents. It saves me a lot of trouble. Tqtqtq!

[@mihpop9733]

Thank you so much! So much time has been wasted before doing a combination of the wrong method!

[@Elinsinba]

Excellent. Thank you!

[@muhammadhairulhazuanhairud2546]

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[@kenshindavitt3863]

Great Video. Thank you!

[@divyachoudhary2925]

Very informative and helped me a lot when I was in trouble.

[@ChristopherLum]

Hi, Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. If you find these videos helpful, I hope you'll consider supporting the channel via Patreon at www.patreon.com/christopherwlum or via the 'Thanks' button underneath the video. Given your interest in this topic, I'd love to have you a as a Patron as I'm able to talk/interact personally with all Patrons. Thanks for watching! -Chris

[@MatsNorway]

Mine is grayed out

[@drafezard7315]

Helpful video but way too slow had to put it on 1.5x speed.

[@jimbleman842]

Didn't know this was a thing. Thanks.

[@jamessullivan1822]

Thanks for the new and helpful info Dr. Lum!

[@helenkuni9039]

Great information, thanks!

[@arthurliu7813]

Great video

[@punithaperiyasamy7199]

excellent

[@Tuckedmonkeytato]

saw it

[@johnshanafelt2239]

Thank You!

[@jadenmcclure4116]

Thank you!

[@shawnstanley8492]

Thank You!

[@derejeassefa4736]

Thank you.

[@ChristopherLum]

You are welcome, thanks for watching!

[@dr.mohamedmowafy7632]

please go straight to the point and make it short, thank you

[@multiforc271]

great waste of time, i'm sure there are many things to learn in this video for me at least, but you have added so many time consuming and unnecessary thing to prolong the time, as I assume, maybe I am wrong. but i don't want to waste 20 min to hear 2 min useful material.