Cross-references could, however, very well be wrong. No one will know unless someone exercises the initiative to affirmatively check them, or the document goes into litigation.

The annotation procedures described in the MIRIAM standard entail the use of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), thereby uniquely identifying a component without reference to its physical location.

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

Then, you remember to check the cross-references for the part, saving the day. Since the start of COVID-19, trucking companies have been getting creative for how they source truck parts.

Instead, bookmark and cross-reference those page numbers and let Word update them all as needed. In a future article, I’ll show you a few macros that can update references for you.