Wright Burke locution-for internal cross-references and lowercase for external cross-references, an idea that Chris expressed here.) (Incidentally, it follows that I can’t endorse Chris’s notion of employing initial capitals-or “nitcaps,” to use the A. In default mode, that results in the cross-reference beginning with a capital A, as in “Subject to Article 5, …” In a world of rational English usage, that doesn’t make sense. My other reason for doing so is to help distinguish article headings from section headings.īut including the word Article in article headings in a contract means that the word Article forms part of Word cross-references to articles in that contract. One reason for doing so is that it makes it clear that I use the word article, not section, to refer to a collection of sections. Unlike my treatment of sections, I use the word Article in article headings. (Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Chris!)Īrticle cross-references used to pose a problem, but not anymore. The economy offered by not having Section precede each section more than offsets the labor involved in typing section in front of each cross-reference.
It follows that my automated section cross-references consist of just the enumeration-you have to type the word section. I don’t begin each section with the word Section, as that would be a waste. Life’s too short to update cross-references manually.Īutomated cross-references haven’t posed a problem for me when it comes to sections. Like any sane person, I use Word’s cross-reference function for the cross-references in contracts that I draft.
Chris Lemens, this one’s for you! (When it comes to layout and related issues, Chris is Javert to my Jean Valjean.)
HOW TO UPDATE ALL CROSS REFERENCES IN WORD HOW TO
This post explains how to edit a cross-reference to a contract article so that the a in article is lowercase.
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