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.

Learn how to add references for research papers, journal articles, books, and other sources in Microsoft Word.

Image: insjoy, Getty Images/iStockPhoto The article How to update a page number reference in a Word document uses fields to update cross-references in a Microsoft Word document.

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