Microsoft KB Archive/206500

= WD2000: Cannot Mark Citation That Does Not Include Short Citation =

Article ID: 206500

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q206500





SYMPTOMS
The Mark (or Mark All) button is unavailable (dimmed) in the Mark Citation dialog box until you type some text in the Short citation box. This means you cannot create a TA (table of authorities entry) field in Word using only the long citation. (To locate the Mark Citation dialog box, click Index and Tables on the Insert menu, select the Table of Authorities tab, and then click Mark Citation.)



WORKAROUND
If you want to create a table of authorities entry that does not include a short citation, follow these steps:
 * 1) Select the text you want for the table of authorities entry.
 * 2) On the Insert menu, click Index and Tables, and then select the Table of Authorities tab.
 * 3) Click Mark Citation.
 * 4) In the Mark Citation dialog box, click Mark.
 * 5) Click Close.
 * 6) To turn on the hidden TA fields, click Options on the Tools menu. On the View tab, click to select All under Formatting marks, and then click OK.
 * 7) Modify the TA field manually.

For example, to remove the short citation from the following TA field, delete \s "Short Citation": { TA \l "This is the long version of the citation." \s "Short Citation" \c 3 } The following is the modified TA field, which no longer contains a short citation: { TA \l "This is the long version of the citation." \c 3 } IMPORTANT: You should not use this workaround for documents that you plan to open in WordPerfect. Table of authorities entries that do not contain a short citation may cause a general protection (GP) fault error in WordPerfect.

Keywords: kbprb kbfield KB206500

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