Do you mean like search and replace?

Go to EDIT, select REPLACE. Fill in FIND WHAT with (for
example) "FEF" and REPLACE with "Fred E. Flintstone".
Then tell it to either FIND or REPLACE.

Or, you could also go to Tools and select Macro. I usually
use macros for longer pieces of text/formatted text while
I use Find and Replace for small and simple replacements,
such as using initials or abbreviations when typing a
document, and then later doing Find and Replace when
finalizing it.

Good luck,

CathyJ

-----Original Message-----
i am new to word, and am trying to figure out how to
repeat, say, a company
name automatically throughout a document. the company
name appears at the
top of the document, then appears several more times in
the document. i know
i could keep copying and pasting, but i thot for certain
word would have a
way to "hard code" the areas where i need the text from
above to keep
appearing.... after several hours of searching, im still
stuck.
.