[EchoGreg]

I would like to do in Word what I do in Excel, use a formula to reference
information in a cell in one place and put it in another cell (e.g. If the
information in Table1, cell A2 is "Great", I want the word "Great" to appear
in Table2 in cell A1. In Excel, the formula would simply be "=Table1:A2".
What is the procedure in Word? Thanks.

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

The easiest method is to bookmark the cell text and then create a
cross-reference to it in the second table. Otherwise you are going to
need a VBA solution as near as I can tell.

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"EchoGreg" wrote in message
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I would like to do in Word what I do in Excel, use a formula to reference
information in a cell in one place and put it in another cell (e.g. If the
information in Table1, cell A2 is "Great", I want the word "Great" to appear
in Table2 in cell A1. In Excel, the formula would simply be "=Table1:A2".
What is the procedure in Word? Thanks.


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[Henk57[_181_]]

Dawn Crosier, Word MVP;2612207 Wrote:
The easiest method is to bookmark the cell text and then create a
cross-reference to it in the second table. Otherwise you are going to
need a VBA solution as near as I can tell.

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"
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questions
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"EchoGreg" wrote in message
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I would like to do in Word what I do in Excel, use a formula to
reference
information in a cell in one place and put it in another cell (e.g. If
the
information in Table1, cell A2 is "Great", I want the word "Great" to
appear
in Table2 in cell A1. In Excel, the formula would simply be
"=Table1:A2".
What is the procedure in Word? Thanks.-


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As an alternative solution to Dawn's, you can copy the text from the
source cell in Table 1 and paste it "As link" (via Edit/Paste
Special..) in the destination cell in Table 2. The contents are then
linked: changes in the source cell are also reflected in the
destination cell. This method works similar as dynamically linking to
Excel cells.
As an additional remark, I suggest to show Field shading as "Always" so
the destination cell shows as a field (with a gray background) to remind
you not to overwrite this value.




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