Fields in Word 365 2016 2013 2010 2007

Field keyboard shortcuts

This tip contains shortcut keys for simple and faster work with fields.

Calculations in the table

You can add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers in Word table cells. Also you can calculate averages, percentages, and minimum as well as maximum values.

Price, sum, amount and other numbers in words

In some cases you want to show in your Word document the number or amount in words. You can use macros, but Word proposes easy and simple way by using fields.

How to create a citation

Either you do your scientific research work at school or college, or write an article to the reputable magazine you need to reference sources of your information. Word 2003 provides you automatic tools for inserting citations.

Create a Bibliography, References, or Work Cited

If you use citations in your Word documents, you might need the bibliographic specs for each source that you have referenced.

Revealing document fields

As you work on a document, you normally see the results of the field codes that you've inserted instead of the actual codes themselves. Because of this, these field results may be difficult to distinguish from normal text, so Word has added a feature called shading that helps you to locate such results.

Creating, updating, locking and unlocking links

Automatic update of the embedded and linked objects is extremely powerful feature of Microsoft Word, but it could be boring for a large document. Locking a link prevents the object from being updated by the original application file, such as an Excel spreadsheet file.

How to include the total number of pages along with the current page number

You can easily include the total number of pages along with the current page number (E.g., Page 10 of 20).