Very interesting! However, when I was trying it out, if you paste an entire
paragraph that way, change it by removing a line or two, change the original
and then update, it will revert your linked text back to the original,
removing that paragraphs specific changes and overlying the original
paragraphs new changes.
She'll have to be careful which bits she wants to use as a link... I will
talk to her about it and see if this would work for her.
thanks!
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
What would probably work is to copy the text then edit paste special
html format as a link at the other place(s). Any changes made in the
source text will be automatically reflected in the linked text. However if
there are auto-numbered figure captions or (say) footnotes in the copied
text the numbers of those captions or footnotes will not be duplicated.
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That70sHeidi wrote:
A coworker asked me about this and I'm not sure what to tell her.
We're using 2007.
She has a very long file with multiple sections (not in the Word
sense of Section Break, however). Often she'll copy entire paragraphs
from one part to another within the same document. However, if one
piece of data changes, say, a Figure number or a cost estimate, she
wanted it to be able to find all references and update those
automatically.
She said Excel has something similar between pages, and apparently
our CADD guys can do this in their software. I asked about using
Search and Replace but she said sometimes the wording changes just a
little and renders S&R useless.
Any ideas of how this could work?