# Microsoft Word nerds enter

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**Created:** [August 10, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-word-nerds-enter/71910 "2009-08-10T08:32:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-word-nerds-enter/71910/1 "2009-08-10T08:32:29Z")

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So.

I have a report that I have a bunch of tables and figures.

Usually in the preceding text before a table I have something like this:

As seen in _table 1 - this is the cool stuff_ you will find the results of my hacking skills.

then i present a table with a caption “table 1 - this is the cool stuff”

NOW… here is my issue. if I add or subtract a table someplace in my document, all of the table captions will update automatically - BUT the text I had in my preceding paragraph, wont. I have to manually go back and update everything which presents an issue because said report has 100 tables…

How do I link the preceding paragraph blurb to the appropriate table/figure number?

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**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/microsoft-word-nerds-enter/71910/2 "2009-08-10T08:55:29Z")

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got it. nm.

cross-reference will do it… the trick is to have the figure/table established prior to setting up the linkage…

[http://books.google.com/books?id=iuECX2CUPXkC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=microsoft+word+table+caption+to+text+cross+referencing&source=bl&ots=\_A0aekmJZd&sig=x2q4EqSbsb2aNJiglQ9ctbM6kYw&hl=en&ei=iUCASob2NomaMImt3e8C&sa=X&oi=book\_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=&f=false](http://books.google.com/books?id=iuECX2CUPXkC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=microsoft+word+table+caption+to+text+cross+referencing&source=bl&ots=_A0aekmJZd&sig=x2q4EqSbsb2aNJiglQ9ctbM6kYw&hl=en&ei=iUCASob2NomaMImt3e8C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#v=onepage&q=&f=false)