Delete cross-references

Hope you're billing him by the hour....

Art

All -

Thanks much for the advice, and I obviously just didn't look hard enough for the answer... as my mom would say, if it'd been a snake, it would've bitten me in the face!

Anyway, I used the solution proposed by Sheila (altho I've bookmarked the plug-in site for future reference, looks pretty neat) and it worked swimmingly. I did save a backup copy with the cross-references, but unfortunately this author is unlikely to change his mind... it's not a formatting thing since the cross-references were visually identical to the rest of the text, he just seems to dislike many of the automated features offered by FM and prefers to do things the "old-skool" way... to each his own, I suppose!

Thanks again... Amy

Amy,

I would like to emphasize infinitely Sheila's first comment. If any cross-reference is of the form "see xxx on page ##", then additions and deletions to the content is possibly going to change it, because of the repagination. Do you want to go through a 300+ page document and manually change such cross-references? I would ask the author why the necessity of converting the cross-references to text. If it is just the formatting, as Sheila suggests, then change the cross-reference format.

I hope the author can be made to see reason.

Van

I think Rick Quatro's Find/ChangeSpecial plugin will do this... http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/findchangespecial/index.htm .

Art

Could it be that the author's goal is just wanting the text to appear without any special formatting to indicate the x-ref, rather than remove the actual x-ref functionality itself? It seems a retrograde step to remove the x-ref ... <br /><br />In FM 7.2/Windows the online manual says under Cross references, converting to text, that multiple x-refs in a chapter can be converted to text enmasse by clicking in the document and selecting Special > Cross Reference > Convert to Text. <br /><br />I've never needed to do this myself, so if anybody else here knows of lurking gotchas hopefully they'll chime in. <br /><br />btw, I'd be sure to keep an unconverted backup doc set in reserve, as authors have occasionally been known to see reason after the fact <g>