In Word, you can use Cross-reference to refer to specific places within the document. Insert captions lets you label objects, figures, tables, equations.

Instead, bookmark and cross-reference those page numbers and let Word update them all as needed. In a future article, I’ll show you a few macros that can update references for you.

You’ll often see cross-references, which come in two flavors: See and See also. A See reference points to the correct location for a reference that isn’t defined at that location.