If you want to cross-reference the text of part of a paragraph, enclose the text in a bookmark, and then create a cross-reference to the text of the bookmark.

If you want to cross-reference custom text, you can make use of a SET field. Place the insertion point at the beginning (or end) of the text that you want to reference. Press Ctrl+F9; Word inserts field delimiters, { }. Within the delimiters, type SET myref1 "RIP" (so that you have { SET myref1 "RIP" }). Press F9 to update the field. Word creates a global variable named myref1, storing the text "RIP." No field result will be shown in the text, but if you have enabled the display of bookmarks, you will see the bookmark created by the SET field.

To reference the global variable you just created, insert { REF myref1 \h } and/or { PAGEREF myref1 \h } for the page number. Update the fields by selecting them and pressing F9.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

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