You could bookmark entire cells rather than their contents. Then it
will be more difficult to delete the bookmarks by mistake. The problem
is that REF fields will reference the entire cells, not their
contents, which means that you'd have to use "source cells" without
borders.

Alternatively, you could use a protected form, with text form fields.
For more, see section 1 of the article at
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...nTheBlanks.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Reg" wrote in message
...
Hi everyone.

I have a document with 4 tables. I'll call them T_1, T_2, T_3 &
T_4.
Imaginitive, I know !

T_1, cells B1, C1, D1 & E1 (B1:E1) have text in them.

I would like the text in cell B1 of T_1 to appear in cell A2 of T_2,
T_3 &
T_4.
I would like the text in cell C1 of T_1 to appear in cell A3 of T_2,
T_3 &
T_4.
I would like the text in cell D1 of T_1 to appear in cell A4 of T_2,
T_3 &
T_4.
I would like the text in cell E1 of T_1 to appear in cell A5 of T_2,
T_3 & T_4

This document will get used many times and the contents of T_1,
cells B1:E1
will be overwritten each time the document is used, maybe even
deleted by
some users when they use the document.

I did make this work by putting text in the cells T_1 B1:E1 and
using 4
different bookmarks to bookmark the text in these 4 cells and then
using a
REF field in the appropriate cells of the other 3 tables. It worked
until I
deleted the text in T_1 B1:E1 when I went to re-use the document.
If the
text in the cell is deleted when trying re-use the document, the
bookmark is
lost and the "REF" field doesn't work.

I need a way to identify the content of cells B1:E1 in T_1, rather
than the
specific text in the cells.

Formulae can do this using (T_1 B1) but this only seems to work for
numeric
entries in the cells. I want to be able to use a reference like
this when
the contents of the cell is text.

I tried using the "Table" type in Cross-reference hoping it would
allow me
to identify the contents of a cell but I can't find a description of
how it
works and I can't make it work by hacking.

This seems trivial and it's driving me crazy. Funnily enough ,
Excel, the
application designed to work with numbers, does this easily, but
Word, the
application designed to work with text, doesn't seem to have a
simple
mechanism for achieving this !

If you have any ideas how to make this work, I sure would like to
hear from
you.

Thanks.