Microsoft Word 2016: Referencing Text in one place from another 1

[MattGreer]

Driving myself nuts with this task, and Googled all over and I can't seem to get Bookmarks, Form Fields, and Cross References to play nice together.

What I'm trying to do is type some text in one place, and have it show up in another. I'm accustomed to seeing Word templates with a field of some kind that you can click the entire field will be selected, then replaced as you type. However, I need the field to somehow stay, so that it can be referenced in the header of the next page when a new page is required. I have the header working, different first page is set up. But I can't manage to get the field in that 2nd page header to reference what I type on the previous page. I did use the "Print Preview" so the fields would update. I get the error-can't-find-the-reference message.

I can, however, select text, make it a bookmark, and then cross reference it elsewhere and that works. The problem is when I create a bookmark out of a field I created, the field disappears after I type once I've selected it. So the bookmark apparently goes away.

If this is somehow related to Information Rights Management, my machine isn't set up according to the error message I receive. So if that's the case, let me know and I'll contact the Help Desk.

I hope all this makes sense. Thank you for your help!

Thanks for your help!!



Thanks!!


Matt

 

[macropod]

Simply apply a unique Style name to whatever the content is you want to replicate in the header, then use a STYLEREF field in the 2nd-page header pointing to that Style. No bookmarks, cross-referencing or manual updating required.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[MattGreer]

THANK YOU! Worked like a champ! Sorry it took so long to reply but I've been dealing with other "fires", so to speak.

One other thing, if you would help? I want to have a user-selectable field that they click on that they then enter text, so the text entry by the user is consistently placed every time. I see it sometimes with some instructional text that's replaced. Like a field where someone's supposed to put their name, and in the highlighted field it says *Last, First* but the highlight stays even after you typed. Something like that?

Thanks!!


Matt

 

[macropod]

Perhaps you're thinking of a text content control, which you can insert from the Developer tab then apply highlighting to?

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[MattGreer]

To be honest, I really don't know. I just know I've seen it before and it makes it really convenient to create a reusable form that folks can retype stuff into and not "miss the box" so to speak, and keep the text under control so to speak.

Thanks!!


Matt