Create the cross-reference. Within Word, a cross-reference is a link to another part of a document. It’s actually a field, { PageRef }, and you can enter and update it as you would any other field.

In Microsoft Word, you can use a feature called Cross-reference to refer to specific places within your document, for instance, headings, figures, and tables. Insert caption is a feature in ...

Start Word and open the document with cross-references that you want to update. Click anywhere inside of the document. Press "Ctrl-A" to select the entire document.

1] Mark Your Index Entries. Word can build your index automatically, but it’s smart enough to know which items you want in it. So for users to create an index, they will need to mark the entries.