JHZR2
Staff member
Lots of diverse experience on here, hoping that someone might help me with a handy trick in Word.
I have an item listed at the early part of a document. It’s a very specifically formatted document. Find/change won’t work…
I’d like to be able to somehow select/identify a specific phrase at one spot, and then be able to insert the same phrase elsewhere in the document. Then, if I ever change the first instance, I want it to change everywhere.
Simplified example:
“At the start of the text I am identifying the specific instance that I want to refresh everywhere. Let’s say I want it to be the numbers in the parenthesis that follow. I have identified the value of x to be (0.512).
Now in a subsequent paragraph, I’d like to be able to recall the value that I stated, in a linked manner. So if I reuse the fact that x is found to be (0.512), it is hyperlinked and updates.
Thus if I find that the value of x is actually 0.513, and I edit the first instance in the parenthesis in the first paragraph, it will automatically populate in the parenthesis in the second paragraph.”
Not sure if this makes sense. It’s essentially a linked value of flagged text that will update everywhere that I insert that same flagged text.
Hoping someone has some ideas.
Thanks!
I have an item listed at the early part of a document. It’s a very specifically formatted document. Find/change won’t work…
I’d like to be able to somehow select/identify a specific phrase at one spot, and then be able to insert the same phrase elsewhere in the document. Then, if I ever change the first instance, I want it to change everywhere.
Simplified example:
“At the start of the text I am identifying the specific instance that I want to refresh everywhere. Let’s say I want it to be the numbers in the parenthesis that follow. I have identified the value of x to be (0.512).
Now in a subsequent paragraph, I’d like to be able to recall the value that I stated, in a linked manner. So if I reuse the fact that x is found to be (0.512), it is hyperlinked and updates.
Thus if I find that the value of x is actually 0.513, and I edit the first instance in the parenthesis in the first paragraph, it will automatically populate in the parenthesis in the second paragraph.”
Not sure if this makes sense. It’s essentially a linked value of flagged text that will update everywhere that I insert that same flagged text.
Hoping someone has some ideas.
Thanks!