Undefined control sequence \EnableCrossrefs

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I'm having some trouble with this. I'm quite new to LaTeX, and I'm just trying to recreate a word document in LaTeX. Here's the full error:

E: c:/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/colordoc/colordoc.sty:155 Undefined control sequence \EnableCrossrefs

And here's my preamble if that helps at all:

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumerate,amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,multicol,amsthm,multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx,epsfig,dashrule,colordoc,fancyhdr}
\usepackage{tcolorbox} %% to put boxes 
\usepackage{float}
\cfoot{\thepage}

Thanks for any help.

\EnableCrossrefs is not a standard command (or one I recognise at all) where are you using it? Unrelated but don't use epsfig package unless emulating a document from 1980's — David Carlisle, Nov 29 '16 at 17:34
I don't think I'm using it at all yet. I'm trying to take my professor's code from his latex file and copy it into mine. The only thing I've copied so far are the \usepackage parts from his file. — TheDetective, Nov 29 '16 at 17:41
@TheDetective: See How to keep up with packages and know which ones are obsolete? — Werner, Nov 29 '16 at 17:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 17:52

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If you must use the colordoc package -- and you almost certainly need not -- you should also load the doc package, like this:

\usepackage{graphicx,dashrule,doc,colordoc,fancyhdr}

(The doc package defines the \EnableCrossrefs macro.) My recommendation, just in case it's not clear, is to load neither the doc nor the colordoc package.

Whatever else you do, don't load the epsfig package -- the more so since you're already loading the graphicx package.

answered Nov 29 '16 at 17:52

Mico

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Thank you, that fixed it! I'm not sure why my prof. used colordoc. Why wouldn't you need it? – TheDetective Nov 29 '16 at 18:02
@TheDetective - The abstract of the package's user guide consists of the following statement: "The colordoc package builds on the doc package to provide color highlighting of TEX syntactical conventions, especially curly braces, \if...\fi pairs, and definitions." Unless your document is about documenting TeX and LaTeX code -- which, judging by the rest of the preamble, is exceedingly unlikely -- there should be absolutely no need or reason for loading the doc and colordoc packages. You should ask your professor what induced him (her?) to load the colordoc package... – Mico Nov 29 '16 at 18:12

Undefined control sequence \EnableCrossrefs

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