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Creating custom cross-references

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Creating custom cross-references

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- [Instructor] Previously, we looked at how to insert a basic cross-reference in text using the built-in formats that come with InDesign. Now let's see how to make a custom cross-reference format that gives us both the content and the appearance we want. Here in my chapter one document, I have a cross-reference to chapter four. It consists of the words See Chapter, and then the chapter number, the chapter title, which is styled with a specific character style, and the words on page, and then the page number where chapter four starts. And this was all built using a custom cross-reference format. So let's see how it works. I'll edit the cross-reference by opening the Cross-Reference panel from the Window menu and then double-clicking it. I can see that I'm linking to a paragraph, and it's in the chapter four document. And it's using text formatted with the ChapterTitle style, and it uses a custom format that I made called…

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