Word cannot link to parts of a range. Given that the data are inserted from a database (is this a mailmerge?), the only way of automatically replicating the different parts of the document # in the table would be to insert them there directly from the database - which obviously contains all the elements of the document #. Other than that, a macro could be used to export the elements of the document # from the database output you presently have to the table. To do that, though, the macro would have to be able to definitively identify where the document # occurs in the document and where the output table is in relation to any other tables in the document.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for your feedback, Macropod!

I honestly have no clue how the data is inserted into the template from the database as our IT department set it up.

In our system we only have 3 columns that will link. If we had more, I would gladly enter all this data separately in different fields so that the info could pull into these fields automatically.

I was really hoping there was a way to pull this off.

However, your last suggestion about the possibility of a macro gave me a small glimmer of hope again. So if this is a standard template that will always pull the data from the exact same field and carry it down to the exact same field, does this seem easy enough to make that work? I will have to go find a guru somewhere that can build this macro for me, but if I know that is possible then at least I have hope!

THANKS AGAIN!!!!!!!!