Automatically update text based on text already in the doc?

[Thauran]

Lets say I have a large document. The last page of the document is a page
that quotes text from further up the same document.

Now, if I change the main document, this will not be reflected in the last
page.

What I want is the last page to be automatically updated when I change the
quoted text in the main document.

Kind of like how table of contents works.

I'm surprised this isn't built into Building Blocks. Any ideas?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You can use bookmarks to identify text areas that you want to re-use and
{ REF } fields to re-use them. That isn't completely automatic but it's
likely to be manageable as far as Word is concerned.

You'll probably find some more stuff in this general area at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm

I'm surprised this isn't built into Building Blocks.

"Building Blocks" is essentially a bunch of chunks of stuff you can insert
into a document. As far asI now at the moment they don't package Word
capabilities at a higher level than that. (e.g. I don't know what you are
used to, but for example Word Building Blocks don't do the sort of
allocation of blocks/modules to pages/areas that you might find in a
web-based CMS).

 

[PJY]

Copy the original quote, then use paste special, paste link for the last page

 

[Thauran]

That was fast... two good ideas. I tried the 'paste special' idea, and it
seems to work, except that I'm not sure it auto-updates. This can probably be
tweaked somehow. I'll play around some.

Thank guys.

 

[PJY]

to verify that it updated, just go into print preview, when you come back out
you should see the change

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Just be careful - if for example you copy/move/rename the document-that the
link is to the document that you expect. Use Alt-F9 to see the link field.