Bookmarks and tables

[Guest]

I have a similar question. This is the very first time that I have used
Bookmarks, so please be patient with my ignorance. I have a table in a form
that I want to type information in and I want the same information that I
typed to be duplicated later in the document. How do I "tell" the document
that I want the entire table to be duplicated later in the document? I have
read the articles regarding bookmarks and come this far: I have gone to
insert, bookmark, named it "Corrections" and added to the bookmark name. I
don't know how to insert the table into that bookmark. Does that make any
sense?

I then tried to go to the other page in the document that I want to insert
the duplicated bookmark and went to insert, reference, cross-reference, and
then I chose the bookmark. Of course, because I obviously don't have it set
right in the first field, nothing happens. I need step-by-step instructions
for dummies on how these things are supposed to work. Thanks.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Select the table
With the table selected Insert > bookmark
At the place you want the repeated table
Insert a REF field to call the bookmark
Update the field (F9)

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[Brod]

Sharon,

I may have the bull by the horns here but you seem to have the wrong idea of
a bookmark. As the name implies a bookmark will take you to a specific
location in your document. Think of a bookmark - a real one. You have a
book, you put a bookmark in it and put it on a shelf. Next time you bring
down the book you open it at the bookmark and you are where you were when
you put the book down. The same applies with Word. You can have as many
bookmark as you please and each one will take you to a special location in
your document. In Word you name each bookmark with a name relevant to the
location so that it is easily identifiable.

Now, as for duplicating information, you can copy and paste that information
to the new location. For example, let's say you are at Bookmark 1 and you
want that information duplicated into another section of the document. Make
Bookmark 2. Now from Bookmark 1 copy the information, go to Bookmark 2 and
paste the information.

One trick which may help you working in two locations is to use SPLIT
SCREEN. Use the menus: WINDOWS > SPLIT SCREEN. The screen will be split in
two and you can look at two different location in the same document at the
same time. You switch 'focus' from one section of the document to the other
simply by clicking in the section you want.

If you want clearer details or more information contact me on
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Please identify yourself as 'Sharon' in the subject line if you do.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Sharon is not the only one who doesn't understand bookmarks
The content of a bookmark can be placed anywhere in the document using a
cross reference (REF field). No copying and pasting is involved.

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[Stefan Blom]

Actually, Word bookmarks allow you to do more than easily go to a
location. If you combine bookmarks and REF fields (as described by
Graham Mayor), you can reference bookmarked data, and have the
reference update when the referenced data changes.