Hi Melanie,



To use a cross-reference, first bookmark the thing you want to cross-reference (Insert|Bookmark). Then, wherever you want the cross-reference to appear, use Insert|Cross-reference>Bookmark and select the relevant bookmark. That's all there is to it. I have no idea why you're trying to use an INCLUDETEXT field.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I may have over-simplified my description of the task in the original post. I am collecting a variety of data from several sources and creating one "master data" document. Inside that data doc there is a list of names that needs to be placed inside the Legal Complaint document I am creating several times as well as a variety of other data that may vary between Complaint documents. I want to create a master "shell" for the complaint that I can then attach to the Master Data document and pull out the required info in the required locations so that I have some reusability of the shell (sans specific case data). So mail Merge was were I started ... and that didn't work out so well for every item I needed to include. I think I am going to need to use a variety of tools to accomplish this task. The includetext statement was something I was using to attempt to reference a data doc bookmark's contents in this Shell doc. It seems in trying to create less work in the future I have made it difficult on myself this first go-around!

I created bookmarks in my Master Data document, however just using the interface to insert a cross-reference in the Shell doc as you describe does not give me a list of bookmarks from the data doc ... not sure how to enter a path to the file.

Then suddenly it seemed as if my INCLUDE TEXT could read the file and import it.... and the bookmarks were available from the data doc.

Remove the INCLUDE TEXT and we are back to cannot connect to data source and no bookmarks from the data doc available either.

here's a sample of what I am trying to do ... very stripped down of couse...

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