Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.

You can add page numbers in Word to the header or footer sections of a document using the page numbers option in the Insert menu.

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

In Word 2003, choose Reference from the Insert menu and then choose Index and Tables. The default settings are adequate for the first run, but change the Columns to 1, as shown in Figure G.