Conveniently adding heading number AND text for a cross reference

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I mostly write technical documentation. The documents need a lot of cross references. The format of my cross references are always the same:

<heading-number> <space> <heading-text>.

Adding these using the cross reference dialog is a pain. Find the heading, select paragraph-number from the drop down, insert, select paragraph-text from the drop down, insert, go back to the doc, insert the space (and, normally, change the inserted heading-text to Italic).

Is there any more convenient way of doing this? I did look at existing questions about cross-references (and there's a bunch of those) but none seemed to cover this issue.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '19 at 22:45

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I have written a macro to comfortably insert cross references, avoiding all the hassle of the cross reference dialog that you have described.
It can insert either <heading-number> or <heading-text>, but would be easily adaptable to insert the desired combination of both.

answered Jun 29 '19 at 22:45

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Thanks. I will make use of this - but unfortunately, not at work where they have disabled use of macros... – The Archetypal Paul Jun 30 '19 at 09:22
I've just checked-in a new version of the macro. It is now configurable to support things like your ` `. – Traveler Jul 09 '19 at 22:21
Thank you ! I have opened an issue to enquire about MacOS, which is not currently supported – Ciprian Tomoiagă May 08 '23 at 14:42

Conveniently adding heading number AND text for a cross reference

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