Sorry about the confusion. Let me see if I can create an example here on the board. I’ll use line numbers on the left to denote actual lines in a Word document.
1 It has been decided that dumping toxic waste on a civilian’s yard
2 is to be frowned upon.* (CFR citation goes here).* Action should be taken with a….
3 taken with a….
OK, that was good. But then someone (the document has to go to three or four different offices before it is released to the public) adds a bit of text to it
1 It has been decided that dumping toxic waste on a civilian’s yard,
2 no matter how funny it may seem, is to be frowned upon. (CFR
3 citation goes here). Action should be taken with a…
This should be presented in the final document as
1 It has been decided that dumping toxic waste on a civilian’s yard,
2 no matter how funny it may seem, is to be frowned upon.
3 (CFR citation goes here). Action should be taken with a…
Note how the citation is now all on one line. This is typically done manually by adding spaces to move it down a line. Later, someone edits it further, changing it to
1 It has been decided that dumping toxic waste on a civilian’s yard,
2 no matter how funny it may seemat the time, is to be frowned
3 upon. (CFR citation goes here). Action should be taken with a…
Now there are extra spaces. The final version should read
1 It has been decided that dumping toxic waste on a civilian’s yard,
2 no matter how funny it may seemat the time, is to be frowned
3 upon. (CFR citation goes here). Action should be taken with a…
This is not really a problem to take care of individually, but some of these documents can run to forty or fifty pages with cites and web addresses and whatnot scattered throughout. Searching out phrases that have been broken up or have extra spaces takes is not problematic per se, but it does a lot of time.
What I am hoping is possible is to highlight (CFR citation goes here) and have Word keep track of it for me. Word does this with individual words with *word-wrap[/I turned on, can it do it with marked phrases? Again, thanks for your help.
Rhythmdvl
Hoping this post looks like it should
Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right…