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. What is a Caption in Word?

I made the list of references for my thesis and added cross references where I reference the references (same for figures). Everything works unless I try to re-order the references. If I do that ...

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.