Paul,

Thanks for the response!

I'd started doing some experimenting and begun to suspect it was coming up when I started a new header line by hitting return, but I chalked that up to my tendency to insert in the middle of a list of numbers by hitting 'enter' at the beginning of a later list item.



Any idea on what would cause the links to try to open it as a new document?

Hi CLWriter,

Without seeing the document, I'd only be guessing. The guess would be that you have a hyperlink pointing to another document.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

In case anyone else is reading this and puzzling, I figured out the cross references trying to open as links. It wasn't a problem with Word at all; its our change management system. Because the document is stored on a server but is checked out to a local copy for editing, the links point to the actual stored location of the document.