Hi CW,

Cell addresses in Word follow the same convention as in Excel, Lotus etc.
That is, columns are designated A, B, C etc and rows are designated 1, 2, 3,
etc. To refer to a given cell, you refer to it as A1, A2, B1, B2, etc.

If you want to get the value of one cell and use it in another (eg to
multiply it by a value), the formula would be something like:
=A1*3
But! To get the formula to work, you need to encode it as a formula field.
Quite easy really - simply press Ctrl-F9 to create a pair of field braces,
which look like '{ }' and type your formula between them. When you're done,
press F9 to update it.

For more information on calculations in Word, check out my Word Field Maths
'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...?Number=365442

Cheers


"CW" wrote in message
...
There's tons of mind-boggling stuff in here about how to use cell
references
for calculations in a table, which will be great...if only I knew how to
enter the refs in the cells in the first place!!!!
Nobody seems to cover that fundamental starting point. Word's inbuilt Help
doesn't either.
Please explain in simple terms - how do you assign and enter the cell
references within a table (Word 2002)???
Thank you!