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# Cross references

References to other parts of the lease update themselves when the structure changes.

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Legal drafting is full of references — _as defined in Article 3_, _subject to the provisions of Section 8.2(b)_, _in accordance with Exhibit C_. Each one is a small landmine. Renumber a section, insert a new article, swap two list items, and every reference that pointed at the old number is now wrong. Catching them all in proofread is the kind of work that makes lease drafting tedious and error-prone.

In LeasePilot, the references catch themselves.

## 01How it works

Every part of the document that can be referenced — articles, sections, subsections, exhibits — has a bookmark behind it. Cross-references are the links that point at those bookmarks. When something changes — a new section is added, a list is reordered, a clause bumps everything down a number — every cross-reference that pointed at the affected target updates automatically. _Article 3_ becomes _Article 4_ wherever it appears in the document, no proofread required.

## 02What you'll see

Cross-references show up in the document with a light-blue highlight. They read like normal text, but they're locked: you can't edit one by typing over it. The number it shows isn't stored as text, it's resolved from whatever its bookmark currently points at.

Bookmarks themselves are normally invisible. You can toggle them on from the toolbar to see where they sit, each one labeled with a short name describing what it marks. The article _Common Areas and Parking_, for example, might be bookmarked as `common-areas-parking-article`.

> Note**Cross-references aren't user-created.** Bookmarks and the references that point at them are set up during onboarding, as part of how your form is built. Once they're in place, they maintain themselves for the life of every lease drafted from that form. New bookmarks get added when your form structure changes through the implementation team.

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The same structural intelligence that keeps cross-references current keeps the document's numbering current. See [Text editing](/resources/help/demos/text-editing) for how the editor stays out of the way of that structure, and [Forms](/resources/help/demos/forms) for how the structure itself is built.

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## Adjacent step-throughs

[Full index](/resources/help#step-throughs)

1.  [01
    
    Forms
    
    Your form templates and conformed deals — every starting point for a new draft, on one screen.
    
    Admin](/resources/help/demos/forms)
2.  [02
    
    Text editing
    
    Write and edit prose the way any document editor should.
    
    Draft](/resources/help/demos/text-editing)
3.  [03
    
    Compare two versions
    
    Run a comparison between two documents and get a redline in Microsoft Word.
    
    Revise](/resources/help/demos/compare-versions)
4.  04
    
    Add a co-tenancy provision
    
    Add an opening or ongoing co-tenancy provision with triggers and remedies.
    
    Forthcoming
    
5.  05
    
    Add a ROFO or ROFR
    
    Add a right of first offer or right of first refusal for expansion space.
    
    Forthcoming
    

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