MS Word has a cross-reference feature that will allow you to indicate the contents of a paragraph formatted with a specific style. You use fields to do this and it is mostly used in headers and footers. Suppose for instance, that you wanted your header or footer to refer to the last heading on your page, which often takes place in academia and reference materials.
Follow the steps below to learn how:
- Place your cursor where you would like your cross-reference to appear (header or footer).
- Click CTRL + F9 to insert field brackets. Make sure your cursor is in between the bracket. You can ONLY use the brackets by clicking CTRL + F9. I will not work if you put the brackets in manually.
- Key in STYLEREF followed by the name of the formatting style used to format the paragraph you want to cross-reference. The name of the formatting style must be enclosed with quotation marks. Follow that with the \l switch.
- It should look something like this: {styleref” heading1″\l}.
- Click F9 to upsdate your field information and Word will replace the field with the text of the last paragraph on the pages formatted with the style you specified.
