Identical text in two locations

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Although I have read a lot of threads regarding this issue, I still can't figure out how to do this/get it to work for me. Using a document created from a template I made, in a table cell I want to type a date (not the current date) and have that date appear again in my template, although not in a table cell. I had this set up in Word97: there were two brackets in the cell, I would click between the brackets, type the date, hit Ctrl-A, then the F9 key and it would update. When I copied my template from old computer (Word97) to new computer (Word2003), this setup did not carry over for some reason. I have opened my template and tried bookmarks, fields, cross-reference, you name it. Nothing happens. No brackets appear, no grayed area where the second date would appear, nothing.

Thanks for any help!
 
Janalee,

The brackets in the table where marked you bookmark. Check
Tool>Options>View>Show Bookmarks.
To display the grey field shading use Tools>Options>View>Show Field Shading
and make your choice.
Check Insert>Bookmarks to determine the bookmark name of the cell holding
your date.
Click ALT+F to toggle field codes and see if you have a REF field in your
template. Should look something like this { REF YourBookmarkName }. If not
there then use CTRL+F9 to enter the proper field code.
Press ALT+F9 to toggle again.

Should work like it did in Word97.
 
Greg
Thank you so much -- worked wonderfully and my template is as it should be! Appreciate your help.
 
Hi,

It looks like Greg fixed your immediate problem. One thing that can work
well in Word in such a situation is the StyleRef field which seeks out text
formatted in a given style. If all that is going into your table cell is the
date you want repeated, you could format that cell in a Date style (which
has the same formatting you are currently using). So long as that is the
only thing in your document using that style, a StyleRef field { StyleRef
"Date" } will put the information elsewhere in your document. If the
elsewhere is in a header/footer it will be updated as soon as you change it.
Otherwise, the Alt-A, F9 would update it.

The advantage to this procedure over using a bookmark is that bookmarks are
fragile and easily deleted by mistake. It is harder to change a style by
mistake.
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Janalee said:
Although I have read a lot of threads regarding this issue, I still can't
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figure out how to do this/get it to work for me. Using a document created
from a template I made, in a table cell I want to type a date (not the
current date) and have that date appear again in my template, although not
in a table cell. I had this set up in Word97: there were two brackets in
the cell, I would click between the brackets, type the date, hit Ctrl-A,
then the F9 key and it would update. When I copied my template from old
computer (Word97) to new computer (Word2003), this setup did not carry over
for some reason. I have opened my template and tried bookmarks, fields,
cross-reference, you name it. Nothing happens. No brackets appear, no
grayed area where the second date would appear, nothing.
 
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