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A table of authorities is a list of the references in a legal document, such as to cases, statutes, and rules, along with the numbers of the pages the references appear on. To create a table of authorities, you mark citations (citation: A reference to a specific legal case, statute, or other legal document.) and Microsoft Word inserts a special TA (Table of Authorities Entry) field (field: A set of codes that instructs Microsoft Word to insert text, graphics, page numbers, and other material into a document automatically. For example, the DATE field inserts the current date.) in your document. You can then search the document for the next long or short citation to mark, or automatically mark each subsequent occurrence of the citation. If you don’t want to use the existing categories of citations, such as cases or statutes, then you can also change or add categories of citations.

When you build a table of authorities, Word searches for the marked citations, organizes them by category, references their page numbers, and displays the table of authorities in the document. For example, the field

{ TA \l "Baldwin v. Alberti, 58 Wn. 2d 243 (1961)" \s "Baldwin v. Alberti" \c 1 \b }

creates the following entry in the "Cases" category of a table of authorities:

Baldwin v. Alberti, 58 Wn. 2d 243 (1961) 5,6