Re: [libreoffice-users] How to Find Dangling Cross References in Writer

Hi, Probably not the solution you were hunting for but I create a PDF 
and search for the offending text. It gets the job done in a roundabout 
sort of way

Cheers
On 08/09/2013 06:47 AM, CVAlkan wrote:
> My own fault of course, but sometimes I begin with with a passage that says
> something like
>
> "See [Blah-Blah] on page [99]"
>
> where the items in the braces are actually cross-references. Then I later
> delete whatever that was referring to without realizing something was
> referencing it and end up with
>
> "See Error: Reference source not found on page Error: Reference source not
> found."
>
> Is there a way to search for dangling references like this in LibreOffice? I
> realize that attempting to issue a warning saying "you can't delete what you
> just tried to delete since something is referencing it" (sort of like a
> relational database might do) would be fairly impractical, particularly if
> you're trying to delete a huge chunk of text, but being able to do such a
> search would be a good addition to preparation for printing and so forth.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> If, by the way, no such thing exists, might that be a generally useful
> enhancement request?
>
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