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How to link cells within a word table

I am creating a report in Word. This report is linked to a database and data is written to cells in the table automatically.
However some of the cells within the table will need to be manually filled by the user. These cells appear in several places within the report and I want the user to only have to type it once and for it to be filled in automatically in the other cells.
How can this be done, linking cells together in a Word table? I know it could be done easily enough in Excel but I need to use Word for this report.
 
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If the first occurence is bookmarked, repeat displays can be done with Ref fields which point to the bookmark. Update the fields in the document so:  use  Ctrl+A  to select the whole document and then F9 to update all fields in the selection.
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Thanks for the response. But I don't want the users to have to Ctrl A and then F9, as they wouldn't be able to find F9. Is there any other way whereby the fields would be filled automatically and any chnges to the fields would update automatically?
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