I need to create a contract document in which I would have to input a person's name only once and then it would pop up at designated points throughout the rest of the document. How do I do this?

I have no idea. But I found this:

Microsoft Word: Auto-populating form fields in MS Word, microsoft word document, ref field (http://en.allexperts.com/q/Microsoft-Word-1058/2010/1/Auto-populating-form-fields-1.htm)

Thank you.