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Originally Posted by never-ever
Hi,
I am wondering if there is an option in Word to do something like this:
I have document where in one place I wrote some steps to do (punctuation). In each step there is some number or word/sentence.
And in some steps this numbers or words should be the same. If I change word in first occurence it should change in other places.
Is there any way to do this? Now I do this by putting Cross-reference (Insert -> Links -> Cross-reference) in every next step like this "as the same as in the point 1.1". But in big documents it is hard to go back to i.e. point 1.1 and check the value.
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Do you mean you are bookmarking the first item and using cross-reference for the repeated instances? That is certainly one way to do it. It sounds like you are only using cross-reference and manually selecting. Try highlighting the first instance and making it a bookmark (call it Subject1 or whatever makes sense.) Then when you're doing the cross-reference, it's pretty easy to call up.
In the attached image, I took some random Office text, selected a noun, bookmarked it, and am able to repeatedly insert the cross-reference wherever I please, even if it makes the sentence not make sense.
You can also use Fields, which may make sense if you have a document like, for example, an apartment rental contract, where the lessee's name might be repeated over and over again, and you have a template where you only want to change that entry once and it populates all over.