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I want text from the cells in one table repeated in other tables
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. |
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