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

Use \b to bold the entry. Use \i to italicize the entry. Use \t to add a cross-reference. Use \r to reference a bookmark (which we didn’t cover in this article).

The article How to update a page number reference in a Word document uses fields to update cross-references in a Microsoft Word document. The problem is that the fields in use won’t update ...