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Version 17 includes several improvements to Lawmaker’s referencing tools which extend the x-ref functionality already present in the application. These enhancements should help to improve the quality of references created in Bills and SIs, while also making it easier for Lawmaker users to manage and update the references in their document.

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  • External references now show in blue in the Editor.

  • Internal references now show in purple in the Editor.

There are some other smaller presentational changes to references in the Editor. If an x-ref tag already exists in a document and the target of this reference is changed as a result of the automatic “Tag references” function, the changed reference will be shown in dark red. There will also be a corresponding document check warning reminding you to check this reference, because its target (i.e. the thing it links to, either within the current document or on legislation.gov.uk) has changed as a result of the automatic tagging operation.

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All functions relating to x-refs are now accessible from a floating toolbar which appears when you double-click on a reference in the Editor. Many of the functions on this toolbar were present in earlier versions of Lawmaker, and available from the right-click menu, but some are new - for example, “Go to ref”, which takes you to the target of the reference. https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/500203522/References#How-to-view-the-target-of-a-reference

The right-click menu still contains the same x-ref functions as before, along with some new ones, like Edit ref; the floating toolbar is another way of accessing the same functionality.

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