Multiple continues references in Microsoft office word 2013
I'm writing a paper for IEEE using Microsoft office Word 2013. I want to use dynamic reference which is available in this version of Word. In a place of my article the references are similar to:
bla bla
[1,2,3,4,5]
How can I convert it to some thing like [1]-[5] without losing dynamic ability?
In other words I do not want to convert my references to static text.
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According to this page on word.tips.net, this is not possible in Word.
There is instead a suggestion to hide the middle references and add a dash:
One solution is to select the intermediate references in the range, format them as hidden text, and then add a dash. For instance, you could select ",4,5," from the references "3,4,5,6", format the selection as hidden text, and then add a dash to provide the result of "3-6". If you have quite a few such operations to perform in your text, you can automate it slightly by using the following macro:
Sub RefListToRange() Selection.Font.Hidden = True Selection.Collapse (wdCollapseEnd) Selection.TypeText Text:="–" End SubSelect the portion you want to hide (such as ",4,5,") and the macro does the hiding and adds the dash.
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