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How to automatically update "See page ____" cross-references in your briefs and memos

By ajlevy

Continuing readers of legal blogs such as this one probably know how to create cross-references in their briefs and memos. With that knowledge, they don't have to manually update their cross-references when they add or delete pages in their briefs and memos, thus changing the cross-referenced pages. Therefore, for most of you, the following is a time-saving posting for you to share with your fellow attorneys and their secretaries: How many times have you written a brief and you're on page 10 and you want to refer to something above that's on page 5. So, you write “See page 5, supra.” But later you put some new material before page 5, and page 5 becomes page 7. Now your reference is no longer accurate. Then, unless you forget, you manually change 5 to 7. However, that can be tedious if you have four or five or more cross-references. And, even if you only have one, you might forget to make the change. There's a way in both WordPerfect and Microsoft Word to make your life easier. It's called “cross-referencing.” It's a little complicated at first, but once you or your secretary learn the technique, it's easy. Essentially, for instance in...

Full post as published by Out of the Box Lawyering on February 12, 2007 (boomark / email).