Is there a way to get two cells in a Word Table to have the same text?

[M_Lyons10]

Hi everyone. I know I can do this in Excel using a formula, but I'm not sure if I can do this in Word (And if so, I'm not sure what I would point it to... I know I can do formulas in Word...).

But I have a document that is several pages long. One page is going to be the front and the other the back. I'm using this to work up some name badges for work and was wondering if there was a way for me to tell a cell in a table to show the same text as another cell in a different table (All of the name badges are tables to help with formatting).

Does anyone know if I can do this and how I could point to a particular cell?

I really appreciate the help. It would be nice to only have to change this once per name badge (As I expect to be changing this often)...

Thanks again,

[Hardcore Til I Die]

Copy/paste it? There's a select table button at the top left hand corner of the table. Click on that, Ctrl+C, then go to your second table, select the table, Ctrl+V.

Should produce a copy of the first.

I appreciate it's not exactly what you want but it's slightly better than re-typing everything twice :p

[M_Lyons10]

Alright, never mind, I figured it out. I appreciate the help, but in case anyone else needs to do this in the future, first mark the original text as a Bookmark, then you go to "Edit Field" and you can autopopulate text based on just about anything (Including any of your bookmarks). :)

Thanks for the help as well. I just really didn't want to copy and paste or retype each time.

Edit: Oh, in the, rather long, list of options, choose "ref" to reference another field (Bookmark)...

[Slacker]

It's been awhile since I've used Word, but I believe that you can embed an Excel table into a word document so that you can use formulas for this kind of thing.

[eXtermia]

you might be able to store the fields in an access database or excel sheet and reference them using a mail merge.