Cross-references and hyperlinks are two entirely different things.



By default, cross-references adopt the formatting of the paragraph into which they're inserted. Hyperlinks, on the other hand, ordinarily adopt the hyperlink Style.

Just as you can insert a cross-reference to a heading, bookmark, etc., you can do the same with hyperlinks. That will get you the hyperlink formatting; the downside is that the hyperlink display text doesn't auto-update to reflect changes in whatever it's linked to. The alternative is to apply the hyperlink Style to your cross-references, so they look like hyperlinks (they still won't change colour when followed, though).

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Paul Edstein
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Aha. I was assuming that cross-references were a form of hyperlink and would be formatted the same way and that somehow I had screwed up the cross-references so that they were not formatted that way.

Is there any way to get Word to treat cross-references as hyperlinks or at least format them that way??

Not automatically. If that's what you really want, you should consider using hyperlinks; not cross-references. That said, a Word macro could be used to reformat your cross-references to look like hyperlinks. Even then, however, they wouldn't change colour when clicked.

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