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            <b><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - NAVIGATOR: Not possible to delete a reference in the navigator"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140666#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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          bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
   title="UNCONFIRMED - NAVIGATOR: Not possible to delete a reference in the navigator"
   href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140666">bug 140666</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:dgp-mail@gmx.de" title="Dieter <dgp-mail@gmx.de>"> <span class="fn">Dieter</span></a>
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        <pre>(In reply to Jim Raykowski from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=140666#c1">comment #1</a>)
<span class="quote">> Hi Dieter,

> Is there another way to delete a cross-reference other than to delete the
> entire span it targets?</span >

I don't think so. Help says: "To remove a reference, delete the field."[1]

[1]
<a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-GB/text/swriter/01/04090002.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=modules/swriter/ui/fldrefpage/FieldRefPage#bm_id3149042">https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-GB/text/swriter/01/04090002.html?System=WIN&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=modules/swriter/ui/fldrefpage/FieldRefPage#bm_id3149042</a>

BTW: I've found two other reports regarding cross-references and navigator:
<a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - Cross-reference dialogue in Sidebar"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=87078#c2">Bug 87078 comment 2</a> suggest to add an option "insert cross-reference" to
headings and perhaps other elements in the navigator
<a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - [EDITING] Impossible to modify the name of a reference once it is created"
   href="show_bug.cgi?id=43254">Bug 43254</a> asks for the possibility to change a name of a reference (perhaps it
it could be possible in the navigator?)</pre>
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