Advanced header and footers - can you auto-populate content into headers and footers from somewhere else in a document?

I have a Word 2013 template I'm creating, with a content control box on the first page. The content they enter here, I would like to show up in the headers, without having to edit the headers.

Is there a way to do with this with a combination of Quick Parts fields, content controls or such? I've been able to figure out how to populate info with Fields from Quick Parts, but this seems to be a set list of options - I couldn't find a way to add a custom item there. I figured that would be the way to do it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you want the header content to update automatically, you can use a StyleRef field in the header. For this purpose, you will need to apply a custom (character) style to the content control.

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Greg Maxey

Bookmark the CC (e.g. name it bmRef)

Add a REF field to the header e.g., {Ref bmRef}

add this code to the ThisDocument project:

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim lngIndex As Long
For lngIndex = 1 To 3
ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(lngIndex).Range.Fields.Update
Next lngIndex
End Sub

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