How do you reveal existing cross-references in the XML Edito

[Mister Squawk]

I'm hoping this is a dumb question, but how can I tell if some text in a topic is a cross reference or not?

Here's what the text looks like in the XML Editor:

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If I hover over it, it shows that it is a cross-reference, but there's no obvious way to tell which text is cross-reference text in which is not:

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Naturally, it can be viewed in the raw XML:

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Is there a way to reveal it so that it's obvious when I look at the file?

[doloremipsum]

It looks like when you're working in the Web medium the xrefs have a hyperlink style (blue with underline), even if that's not what's defined in the stylesheet. You must be working in the print medium - when I switch to print the hyperlink formatting disappears.

But either way, if you click on the paragraph you should see an xref structure bar at the top. You can click on that to highlight the xref in question.

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[kmorrison]

I was going to say the same thing as doloremipsum about the structure bars. Note that these bars at the top are the Span Structure Bars, and they can be turned on and off. (https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... e-Bars.htm)

Another trick I sometimes use to make it easier for writers to distinguish between styles that look similar but have important differences is to specify a really obviously different appearance for the things in the default medium that is then overridden in both the print and the screen medium. That way, writers can select the default medium in the editor and see the colour coded view.