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Inserting cross-references

Inserting cross-references

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Inserting cross-references

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You can easily create cross- references in the stories that you check out. A cross-reference is bit of text that automatically appears that's pulled from a target bit of text. For example, you can cross-reference a figure number and the page at a time and then if the page number changes because the designer moves the figure or adds pages in between, then the text that references that figure number will automatically update with the correct page number. So, cross-references, if used properly will help streamline your workflow and keep the text most accurate. So let's see how you can add cross- references in this example document. The first rule is that you need to check out the stories, not just where you're going to insert the cross- reference, but also the text of the story that you're going to reference. Let's just check out all the stories in this document by selecting the category Unassigned InCopy Content and clicking the Checkout icon. In this example what we want to do is in…

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