Source error of the re-routing not found
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Hello everyone,
I am gathering texts written under the successive versions of Word, and I am currently at Word 2007.
For the oldest texts, I am confronted with the bold message Error, reference source not found!.
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?
Thank you in advance!
I am gathering texts written under the successive versions of Word, and I am currently at Word 2007.
For the oldest texts, I am confronted with the bold message Error, reference source not found!.
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?
Thank you in advance!
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Hello,
The transition from an old version to the 2007 version should not generate this message, but you do not specify what type of reference it is (reference to bookmarks, table captions, pages, paragraph numbers, etc.?).
Moreover, I don’t know what you mean by "how to get rid of it".
If you simply want to delete these references, you can proceed as follows:
- press ALT F9 to display field codes (you will see your references in the form of { REF xxxx }.
- press CTRL H to display the Find/Replace dialog box
- in the "Find" field, type ^d REF
- leave the "Replace" field empty and click on "Replace All".
Of course, this implies that you want to delete all references (REF). Otherwise, you need to refine the find/replace or use a small selective macro that only deletes the references causing an error.
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C-Claire
The transition from an old version to the 2007 version should not generate this message, but you do not specify what type of reference it is (reference to bookmarks, table captions, pages, paragraph numbers, etc.?).
Moreover, I don’t know what you mean by "how to get rid of it".
If you simply want to delete these references, you can proceed as follows:
- press ALT F9 to display field codes (you will see your references in the form of { REF xxxx }.
- press CTRL H to display the Find/Replace dialog box
- in the "Find" field, type ^d REF
- leave the "Replace" field empty and click on "Replace All".
Of course, this implies that you want to delete all references (REF). Otherwise, you need to refine the find/replace or use a small selective macro that only deletes the references causing an error.
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C-Claire
I am gathering texts that have been written over more than 20 years, so in very varied Word formats!
I have a total of 257 pages, and the "Error source of the reference..." message seemed to only appear in some of them.
I pressed Alt F9, I saw references that looked like old indexes.
^d REF didn't work, but I searched manually and deleted the references one by one. They seem to have disappeared.
However, I cannot insert page numbers or create a table of contents. Instead of the page number, it displays in gray {PAGE...\* MERGEFORMAT}.
Do you think you can help me out of this mess? That would be really nice. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to respond to me.
Santke
if ^d REF didn't work, it's because you don't have a corresponding reference (or you've made an error in the code ;-))
To get you out of the "mire" that displays { PAGE...}, press ALT F9 again.
C-Claire
If I may ask another question, is it possible to create two different indexes on the same text?
Best regards
santke
You can create as many indexes as you want in the same document, but you will be limited to 9 for the styles ;-) And like most features, there are several ways to achieve this.
The one I suggest is using an index identifier represented by the switch \f followed by the name of the index (the paragraph formatting marks ¶ must be displayed):
- add \f A to the entries that should be part of the 1st index. For example, you will get { XE "word of the 1st index" \f A }
- add \f B to the entries that should be part of the 2nd index. For example, you will get { XE "word of the 2nd index" \f B }
- generate the 1st index normally. You will receive an error message "No index entries were found"
- press ALT F9 to display the index field code and add \f A. This will yield { INDEX .... \f A }
- press ALT F9 again to hide the code and then press F9 to refresh the index.
- generate the 2nd index normally. Word will ask if you want to replace the previous one. Answer "No". You will get the same error message as before.
- press ALT F9 to display the index field code and add \f B. This will yield { INDEX .... \f B }, etc.
The letters A and B are the names of the indexes you want to create that allow grouping. They can be replaced by a word of your choice: for example, Abbreviations, Authors, etc. If you use 2 or more words, enclose them in quotes.
This may seem cumbersome, but you can copy/paste the switch \f xx into the index entries to save time.
The advantage of this method is the complete automation of index updates by simply pressing F9 if needed to refresh the list.
C-Claire
PS: when you have a question that is significantly different from the previous one, don't hesitate to create a new discussion thread to facilitate future searches in the forum.