Copy text from one place to another

[Carl]

I want to create a small table in the beginning of the
document. The information from two of those cells should
then get copied to other cells in three other tables in
the document automatically. In detail we have a document
with one page for each test case. The operator then has
to put an OK/Failed text in the table on each side.
Another person then has to make a table in the end
manually that shows the result from all the pages. It
would be great if the result from the different pages
would get copied automatically to the table in the end.

How do I solve this problem?

Best Regards Carl

 

[Ashish Chetal [MSFT]]

Hi
What you could use here is table referencing
Lookup "Referencing cells in a table" from word help.
Essentially you would have to create bookmarks for the individual tables
and then use refernces in the final summary table

As a sample:
To reference cells in another table, or to reference a cell from outside a
table, identify the table with a bookmark. For example, the field {
=average(Table2 b:b) } averages column B in the table marked by the
bookmark Table2.

Hope this helps,
Regds

 

[macropod]

Hi Ashish,

That approach won't work in this case. Word's intra-table references only
work with numeric values, but in this case the user is dealing with text
(OK/Failed). It could readily be done with Formfields, though, since they
create bookmarks that are easy to cross-reference elsewhere in the document.

Cheers

 

[Guest]

The bookmark => insert fields solution worked. Good work
guys! Thank alot! Carl from Sweden