#WORD 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS NOT UPDATING UPDATE#
Off to Google… where I found that if the fields are locked (who knew?) then you get a grayed out Update Field option. I’d never seen that before, so I tried a few more with the same result-I couldn’t update a cross-reference! I thought I’d just try updating one of these cross-referenced fields, but when I selected it and right-clicked, Update Field was grayed out (greyed out). But why wasn’t the cross-reference showing as 3 instead of 3.0? When I Ctrl+clicked on a 3.0 cross-reference (for example) it went to the correct place. for the numbered Heading 1 style, whereas the new template I’d transferred this document to used 3, 4, etc. But what told me definitively that something wasn’t right was that old template used 3.0, 4.0 etc. That in itself was a little unusual especially as I’d redone the Appendix headings, so the original cross-references to them should have broken. On this document I fully expected several of them, but there were none.
I’d assumed all the cross-referenced fields in the document had also updated and did my usual check for ‘Error!’ to find anything that broke during the update. In a recent document I was editing, I could update the TOC, list of figures/tables, and the fields in the headers/footers using one or more of the usual methods (switch to Print Preview view then back to Print Layout F9 right-click and select Update Field update table of contents command etc.). And I usually ‘find’ the thing that I didn’t know existed because I’ve come across something in a document that I can’t solve and have to investigate (search Google) to find the cause and the solution. I’ve been using Microsoft Word for Windows since about Word 2.0 (yes, more than two decades…) but sometimes it still stops me in my tracks with something I didn’t know existed.
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