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(Note: This guide on how to insert a placeholder in Word is suitable for all MS Word versions including Office 365)

Microsoft Word has a variety of applications and it offers a variety of features that greatly facilitates creating, formatting, storing, and sharing documents. 

Especially when you create scientific or academic content in Word, there might be a lot of places where you have to provide references to the author or the original text. But, you might not know what to refer to yet. In such cases, you can just enter a temporary text and come back for it later on. 

In such a case, you can use placeholder text in the desired location to add citations or other hints which will help the author and user understand the context a little better.

In this article, you will learn what a placeholder is and how to insert a placeholder in Word.