If you bookmark the number, then insert a cross-reference, you will be able
to update the cross-reference with F9.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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> Does anyone know a way to have Word display text (or in this case, a number)
> that is referenced somewhere else in the document? The referenced number is
> an incremental field code and there are several items that refer back to it.
> I'd like to set it up so that if the field code changes, so do the two cross
> references. I guess I'm looking for something sort of like the =cell
> reference that Excel uses.