I'm working on cardiology guidelines with 100+ pages and 1200+ references
when I try to insert a cross-reference to a numbered item for references, I can't get past 999 even though I have more than that.


Is there a way to make the other references show up?
or is there a better and easier way to insert a superscript like hyperlink that links to references?
thanks in advance!

Picture No.1 showing the numbered items limit:
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Picture No.2 showing how I want the hyperlink to look like in the end:
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Are your numbered items scattered throughout your document or are they in a list?
If in a list, perhaps use Endnotes instead of a numbered list? That would take care of your superscript in the text as well.

thank you for answering!
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are you saying that there's a way to transform a numbered list to Endnotes? or should I insert Endnotes manually?
because the second option is impossible with 1200+ references.

If these were originally intended to be a simple list at the end (i.e. endnotes), you used the wrong feature.

Inserting the notes manually may be difficult, but it is not impossible.
It is simply tedious. I can understand your frustration.

There is no process or method built into Word to transform a numbered list referenced using the cross-reference feature into endnotes.
Might it be possible to write a macro that would do this? Yes.

If what you have is a simple numbered list to which you have scattered cross-references to the number in your document (i.e. endnotes without using the endnote feature) I would suggest posting a separate question in the Word VBA Forum with a link back to this one asking for help doing that. The title should be something like "Transform cross-references to numbered list into endnotes using vba."