I have 10 sections in a document with the first section being a summary of the other 9 sections. When I say summary I basically mean a copy and paste. Is there a way to have the summary section show the selected texts I want in the other 9 sections without the need to manually copy and paste? Also, if I edit the text in the other sections, it will automatically update (or I can manually update the field?) to show the text with the new changes.



Example:

1. Summary

I did not eat.
I starved.
I eat apples.
I ate apples.

2. Section 1

I did not eat.
qwer

3. Section 2

I starved.
asdf

4. Section 3

I eat apples.
zxcv

5. Section 4

I ate apples.
tyghbn


Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

The table of contents feature would work with this. You would have to customize the field a bit.

The information you want repeated would have to be in a Style that is picked up by the Table of Contents.

Start by reading the following articles. Note that although it would be easy enough to use a heading 5 or 6 style for your text, you could use a different style if you want. These styles start out with a particular formatting, but you have them formatted to look just like the rest of your text if you want.

Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles?
How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word

If you are doing automatic numbering, you should also read:
How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Word 2007 and Word 2010

Your time would also be well-spent reading the articles on Word basics that start at:
Basic concepts of Microsoft Word: An introduction

I got the TOC to work but I have two TOC as I have an actual table of contents at the first few pages.

Is there a way to split them to be different?

Yes, you just insert two different fields.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...OCSwitches.htm

It took a while but I think I got it to work. Thanks Charles.