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Cross Reference Sources appearing in Story Editor view but not appearing in the Cross Ref pane

Aug 7, 2012 2:03 AM

Tags: #indesign #place #cross_references #word_place

I have imported a Word document containing working cross references into an InDesign document. The vast majority of these cross references import correctly and link to their destinations within the document, however there are some that are not working. If I view the text frame in the story editor view, I can see these "broken" cross reference sources that came in from the Word doc but on selecting them I can see that there isnt a corresponding entry for it in the cross reference pane. As said, there are only a few that are behaving like this.

 

What could be causing these not to appear in the cross reference pane?

 

Obviously as they are not appearing in the list of cross references I can't update them, and also, as they are technically broken cross references, because a source exists for them but there is no corresponding entry in the pane, then on export to epub, InDesign crashes (If there is one broken cross reference in a document, export to Epub will crash indesign).

 

Also, to clarify, in the Word doc if I navigate to a cross reference that is failing once in InDesign, I can update it properly, and also navigate to its destination in the Word doc, so it's not as though these cross references are broken before coming into InDesign. Also I believe the destinations for these "broken" cross references are coming across properly to indesign too as I can see them in the story editor view.

 

Supposed Cross Reference source selected in Story Editor view on left, but no corresponding cross reference highlighted in pane on right:

1-1.JPG

 

Technical Details:

InDesign CS5.5 - Version 7.5.3

Microsoft Word 2010, File type .docx

502 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: davehaigh, Aug 7, 2012 7:01 AM
 
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  • Frans van der Geest
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    1. Frans van der Geest,
    Aug 7, 2012 2:52 AM   in reply to davehaigh
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    Is your panel in Topic mode or Reference mode?

     
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  • davehaigh
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    2. davehaigh,
    Aug 7, 2012 3:04 AM   in reply to Frans van der Geest
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    Are you referring to the index pane? If so I think you misunderstood my question, i'm dealing with cross references not an index. I have no index entries in this document.

     

    My cross ref panel looks like so:

    1-2.JPG

     
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    3. Frans van der Geest,
    Aug 7, 2012 3:29 AM   in reply to davehaigh
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    Ah yes, I totaly misread! It is still early hours here, I was not fully awake it seems ;-) Sorry!

     
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    4. davehaigh,
    Aug 7, 2012 7:01 AM   in reply to Frans van der Geest
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    I have found the possible cause of this problem!

     

    If a table is used within the Word document somewhere between where the cross reference source is and its destination then that particular cross reference will be broken as described above in my initial post.

     

    So the "fix" is to remove any occurances of a table in the Word document and the cross references come into InDesign perfectly. This is actually not a fix at all. I need to use tables in the Word document for layout purposes so if they break cross references if they stand between them and their destinations then I have to compromise, i.e. use tables but with no cross references in the document or vice versa.

     

    I found a similar issue recently with index markers in Word causing a shift on the cross reference tags when bought into InDesign. The "fix" again for that was to remove all index markers from the Word document. See post about this here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1043981

     

    InDesign really needs to sort out the issues with importing of Word documents with cross references in them. If I can't use index markers and tables in a Word document without breaking its cross references then they can't claim to have the ability to import a Word document while maintaining its cross references into an InDesign document. It just doesnt work as ive painstakingly proven.

     
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