I am a lawyer and have recently been investing the time to use mail merge.

But, on a long agreement, I thought it would be a good idea to set up my template for mail merge, then put all the specifics in excel (e.g, the name of the parties, officers names, addresses, etc.) merge it, and then use the results as my starting draft before customizing for the deal at hand.

But the 65 page template has cross references, because I frequently will add or remove paragraphs, depending on what is needed.

The merged resulting doc, no longer has dynamic cross references.

I can understand why, if I was using the merge for a mailing letter, or a number of docs, all the cross references would create a nightmare.

But I am just merging one doc-is there anyway to preserve the auto cross references?