How to Cross Reference in Word

Insert a Cross-reference

1. Click where you want to add a reference.
2. Click the Insert tab.
3. Expand the Links group, if necessary.
4. Click the Cross-reference button.
   
5. Select what you want the cross-reference to point to.
   
6. Click the Insert reference to list arrow and select how you want the reference to be displayed.

   Depending on what you’re making a reference to, you’ll have several choices on how it appears once inserted in the document. For example, you can show a cross-reference to a heading as the heading text itself, the page number the heading is found on, or the heading’s number in the document outline.

7. Click the Insert button.

   The cross-reference is inserted. You can move the cursor and insert additional cross-references, or close the window when you’re finished.

8. Click the Close button.
   

The Cross-reference dialog box closes. You can navigate to a hyperlinked cross-reference that has been inserted into a document by holding the Ctrl key and clicking it.

• Numbered Items
• Headings
• Bookmarks
• Footnotes
• Endnotes
• Equations
• Figures
• Tables

Once a reference type is selected, every object of that type is displayed.

9. Select what you want the cross-reference to point to.
   
10. Click the Insert reference to list arrow and select how you want the reference to be displayed.
11. Click the Insert button.

The cross-reference is inserted. You can move the cursor and insert additional cross-references, or close the window when you’re finished.

12. Click the Close button.