[Word 2013] Can you create cross-reference to [SEQ] field?

[New Daddy]

Can you create a cross-reference to a [SEQ] field?

In the header of each page, I would like to refer to the first SEQ field and the last SEQ field appearing on that particular page. Such cross-reference is easily built if your trying to cross-refer to Styles or Word's built-in numbers (such as "Picture"), but not when it's a user-defined [SEQ] field.

[HansV]

One option is to create a bookmark for each SEQ field that you want to refer to, and create cross references to the bookmarks.

See Cross-referencing a SEQ field for an extended discussion of this subject.

[New Daddy]

One option is to create a bookmark for each SEQ field that you want to refer to, and create cross references to the bookmarks.

See Cross-referencing a SEQ field for an extended discussion of this subject.

Well, that only works if you know which specific SEQ field you want to cross-refer to.

In my scenario, nobody knows which SEQ field, because I just want to cross-refer to the first and last SEQ field that appear on that particular page.

[HansV]

I don't think there is a solution for that.

[HansV]

Does the following work for you?
- Create a character style named Seq. Either leave it set to the default paragraph font, or apply the font formatting that you want.
- Apply this style to all your SEQ fields (you could create a building block to insert a SEQ field with the correct identifier and the Seq style).
- Use a STYLEREF field in the header to refer to the first occurrence of the Seq style, and another STYLEREF field to refer to the last occurrence.

[Jay Freedman]

Adding to Hans's instructions: The first STYLEREF field needs to have no switch, which makes it search for the named character style from the top of the page downward. The second STYLEREF field needs a \l switch (that's a lower case ell) to make it search from the bottom of the page upward, to find the last instance of the style on the page.