What if your cross-reference develops strange behavior, such as always having a hard return before the text or a page break before it? Carefully read the paragraph above and you will discover the answer: If you update the text in the heading, Word automatically updates the text in the cross-reference.
If you do the cross-reference properly (as has been detailed in other WordTips), then whenever you update the text in the heading, Word automatically updates the text in the cross-reference as well. For instance, you may have a heading on one page that you want to cross-reference on another. A typical use for this ability is to cross-reference the contents of a heading. Word allows you to insert cross-references in your document to other places in your document.