Formula for a Word table cell to equal the text in another bookmarked cell?

[Paul]

All,

I have a simple table of many rows and 2 columns.

I want whatever text appears in the left column to be automatically
duplicated in the right column.

In that way, I want to be able to edit the left column text and have the
right column text be automatically updated.

I set a Bookmark around the left column text. I tried to place a field of
"= [Bookmark]" in the left column but that seems to just try to compute an
arithmetic sum.

I tried INCLUDETEXT but it seems to need the text to be in a separate
document.

It seems there must be a way to do this... maybe?

Thanks for any help,

Paul

[Graham Mayor]

I don't think this is possible in the way you describe.

I take it that you simply have a table with two identical columns, and that
you only want to edit one of them?
The following macro will copy the content of the first column to the second

Sub CopyToColumnRight()
Selection.SelectColumn
Selection.Copy
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
Selection.SelectColumn
Selection.Paste
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
Selection.Columns.Delete
End Sub

The only way to do this automatically is to bookmark the cell in each row
and use a REF field to place the data in the opposing column. This has the
distinct disadvantages that it is time consuming in a large table, and that
it is all to easy to overwrite the bookmark boundaries when later editing
the first column.

I suppose there might be a way to work with two documents - one carrying
your single column which you would edit, the other linked to it twice to
give two versions of the same single column table side by side. This does
work (using copy and paste special with link set) but whether it will fulfil
your requirements is another matter.
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