Pages is the Apple equivalent of Microsoft Word, making it one of the quickest and easiest ways to open Word documents on your Mac. Pages comes pre-installed on newer Macs, but if you have an older model then you can download Pages for free from the App Store. So I was typing along in Microsoft Word on a Mac, when all of a sudden I was writing over all of the text -- as if I had pressed the Insert key on a PC.

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Scenario You have some text in a Word document that you’d like to repeat later in that document. You don’t want to write it twice (or more), and you’d rather not copy/paste it from the other location as that means that you’ll have to remember to maintain it in both places if there are changes. If another author takes over the document, they may not know that they have to update this text in two or more places if there are changes, either.

Of course, it would be nice if you could use a tool designed to deal with this sort of single sourcing (such as ), but you’re stuck with Word. Solution Bookmarks! You assign a bookmark to the text you want to re-use, then insert a cross-reference to the bookmark text.

Whenever you change the original text, you only need to update the fields in the document for the changes to apply to the second (or third) instance of that text. Here’s how: • Select the block of text you want to repeat later in the document. This text can be a phrase, one or more paragraphs, a bulleted list, a table, etc. • Insert a bookmark for the selected text (Word 2007 and later: Insert tab > Bookmark). •, click Add, then click OK. • Go to the place in the document where you want to re-use the selected text.

• Insert a cross-reference (Word 2007 and later: References tab > Cross-reference). • Select Bookmark as the Reference Type, and Bookmark Text as the Insert option. • Select the bookmark name you added in Step 3, then click Insert.

256 bit encryption software for text file with password protect for mac free. • Whenever you change any text in the original list, just click inside the other list, then press F9 to update it (or Ctrl+A then F9 to update ALL fields in the document). Optional In some situations, you might want to repeat a block of text in a document, but when the document’s finished, you might want to break the link between the two.

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For example, a colleague had a PPE (personal protective equipment) list near the beginning of her document that she needed to repeat in the main procedure table. Once all the reviews were completed and the document signed off, the procedure table was to be split from the main document into a new document of its own. So she needed to break the link between the original PPE list and the one in the procedure. To break the link: • Select the field that contains the re-used text. • Press Ctrl+Shift+F9. [Links last checked January 2011].