navigating a long list of cross-reference targets

probably nothing new here, but in case it helps someone I thought I'd mention a recent and satisfying Aha! moment …

I'm working on a (strictly manual) translation of a book with copious end-notes; I set these up in a file of their own with autonumbering, and have now reached the stage of inserting the cross-reference to each note. The way the cross-references list bounces cheerfully back to the top of the file was beginning to depress me, as well as slowing things down – with references like KdR II, 121 and KdR I, 96 (and end-note numbering that restarts in each chapter, and the tardy discovery that the original book has accidental duplicates, omissions and out-of-order end-note numbers …) it was turning into a huge and unencouraging task.

Yesterday evening I had a sudden idea. After correctly inserting a cross-reference 54, I copied it – and pasted it where cross-reference 55 needed to be. This meant that I could use it to open the cross-reference targets list and have the focus on 54 immediately; clicking on the next entry is a lot quicker and easier than scrolling down from the top of the list every time.

Once again, FM makes it possible to do more than I expected in less time than I'd anticipated ;-}