Find (Ctrl+f) does not search inside equations

macropod · #1 03-31-2017, 02:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jennifer Murphy

There were 2 problems I couldn't resolve:

I didn't see a way to get the list to show the actual equation. It just showed the caption text.
It seemed to require that I put the caption in a separate line before or after the equation line. I want to put it on the same line on the right.

Re 1: That's how the list of figures works, which is what I thought from post #4 you were trying to emulate. Anything fancier would require a macro.
Re 2: You could use a Style separator (i.e. select the caption's paragraph break and press Ctrl-Alt-Enter), or simply format the caption's paragraph break as hidden text.

Jennifer Murphy · #2 03-31-2017, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by macropod

Re 1: That's how the list of figures works, which is what I thought from post #4 you were trying to emulate. Anything fancier would require a macro.
Re 2: You could use a Style separator (i.e. select the caption's paragraph break and press Ctrl-Alt-Enter), or simply format the caption's paragraph break as hidden text.

I appreciate your help. I guess I'll go with the equation captions under the equations. It takes an extra line, which means less room on the page, but I can more or less copy the equation into the comments so that they show up in the list.

I'm afraid to try any of your work-arounds, especially if they involve macros or complex styles. Even if I get them working, I can never remember how they work and end up messing them up later and then cannot figure out how to recover.

Clearly, the wizards at M$FT know what I need better than I do, so I'll just fall in line. (sigh)

Again, thanks for your help.

PS: Now I have one more table that has to prompt me to get updated. Is there any way to tell Word to automatically update all tables and lists without prompting me every time?

macropod · #3 03-31-2017, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Jennifer Murphy

I'm afraid to try any of your work-arounds, especially if they involve macros or complex styles. Even if I get them working, I can never remember how they work and end up messing them up later and then cannot figure out how to recover.

There's no Style changes involved; just learning to either format the paragraph break as hidden (dead simple) or remembering how to use the Style Separator (something else to clutter the grey-matter). Obviously, you'd apply the hidden attribute or Style Separator to whichever of the caption & equation paragraphs occurs first.

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Originally Posted by Jennifer Murphy

PS: Now I have one more table that has to prompt me to get updated. Is there any way to tell Word to automatically update all tables and lists without prompting me every time?

A Print Preview, printing the document or Ctrl-A, F9 should update all of them. Check, too, that Word's 'update fields before printing' option is checked. Another option would be to have a macro in the document or its template to auto-update the fields every time you open the document. Such a macro might be coded along the lines of:

Code:

Private Sub Document_Open()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument
  .Fields.Update
  .PrintPreview
  .ClosePrintPreview
  .Saved = True
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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