Text or merge fields

I am formatting a book that makes reference to the book title in several locations (headers, title page, copyright info, etc.) but the final title has not been finalized. Is there a way to create a text field (similar to a merge field, I guess) that references the info and fills it in automatically and then will change all the occurrences of that field when it changes?
Thank you!

Hi pkundert
Welcome to the forum.
Just give it a working title or something like «Book_Title» then search and replace on the expression when you know what it should be.
You could make it a merge field, but what is the point, and you'd probably like for it not to be a merge field in the long run.
Peter

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Jody Smith
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To help other community members who may have similar problem, I quote Peter Jamieson's answer here:
(Edited a little...)
I can get this to work here, but there are some things you need to pay attention to when merging to HTML email (rather than to new documents etc.).
The Hyperlink field code I start with is as follows:
{ HYPERLINK }
Insert that using ctrl-F9 to insert the special field brace pair { }, insert the Word HYPERLINK, then select the field and update it using F9.
View the field code results (press Alt-F9 if necessary). In the English language version of Word you should see
Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
Important point number 1:
Do not update the result of this HYPERLINK field again (i.e. don't select it and press F9). If you do, every email will always show the same link text. As
far as I can remember, this behaviour is different when you merge to a document rather than email, or perhaps merge to attachments. This can be a problem if you need to update other fields in your email, or if the email is being used by other people who might
(for whatever reason) update the HYPERLINK field
Now modify the display text.
Use the Arrow keys to move the insertion point so it is between the "E" and the "r" in the Word "Error", and type
Click here to RSVP!
Then you can select and delete the "E", and the "rror! Hyperlink reference not valid."
Select the text and apply the Hyperlink style to it (Home tab of the Ribbon->Styles).
When you toggle field code display using alt-F9, you should see the original field
{ HYPERLINK }
Now click after the K of HYPERLINK and insert the following fields and text (or copy them from somewhere else):
"{ SET x 1 }mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***?subject=July%20Wine%20and%20Spine%20&body=%20Will%20you%20attend?%20%20%20___%20Yes%20%20%20___%20No%0A%20%0a%2{
MERGEFIELD First_Name%20{MERGEFIELD Last_Name }"
so that your field now looks like
{ HYPERLINK "{ SET x 1 }mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***?subject=July%20Wine%20and%20Spine%20&body=%20Will%20you%20attend?%20%20%20___%20Yes%20%20%20___%20No%0A%20%0a%2{
MERGEFIELD First_Name%20{MERGEFIELD Last_Name }" }
As usual, all the {} need to be the special field code brace pairs that you can enter using ctrl-F9 on WIndows Word.
At this point, experienced field users will have to resist the temptation to select the fields and update them. Dont do it!
Save the document.
Test the email merge. At this point, I would hope to see the results you want.
If not, I do not know why this works OK on my system but not yours.
Important point number 2 You may be wondering why
there is a { SET x 1 } field inside the HYPERLINK code. It's because when you are working with a .docx, if you save, close and reopen your document, you may find that Word has resolved all the merge fields nested inside your HYPERLINK field (i.e. replaced
the field codes by their results). This behaviour can appear arbitrary, and the reason that (for some reason), Word does not resolve the nested fields if there is a Word bookmark inside the HYPERLINK field. Now if the insertion point or selection ws inside
the HYPERLINK field when you save/close the document, there will be a bookmark in there, because Word inserts a bookmark called _GoBack, which enables the user to go back to the previous selection. But if you click outside the HYPERLINK field before you save,
there wil be no such bookmark and Word will resolve your field codes. So we put the { SET x 1 } in there to ensure that there is a bookmark (in this case, called X) to prevent that from happening.
Alternatively, if you save as .doc format (not recommended these days if you can avoid it) Word does not resolve these fields and you don't need the { SET } field.
And that's it. Whether that will be enough for your Merge to work as you hope, I cannot be sure, but all I can say is that without doing those 2 things, it almost certainly
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[[I originally had a third thing. I actually now think it's incorrect, but I'm going to leave it here just in case.
Important point number 3: If it does not work, there is
at least one other thing that could be wrong, although I think it is highly unlikely. There is a Windows registry setting called FieldCalcSecurityLevel, which was introduced about 12 years ago when Microsoft made some security-related changes to the behaviour
of certain types of field. I'm not going to step through how to look for that, but for example, in my registry, for Word 2010, it is at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options
It may be elsewhere.
If you cannot find that Option, or it is there and is set to the default value (1), then something else is wrong and I do not know what it is. However, if it is set to 0 (which
makes Word use its original behaviour, you will have to set it to 1 to get this to work.
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