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Re: numbering image/table captions with chapter numbers in ms wordwithout using built-headings

Subject: Re: numbering image/table captions with chapter numbers in ms wordwithout using built-headings
From: "peri jstar" <jstar99 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>, Diana -dot- Ost -at- msmcorp -dot- com, louise -dot- r -dot- stevanovic -at- transport -dot- qld -dot- gov -dot- au, docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:28:05 -0500

Thanks everyone for your replies :) Gave me some ideas and I really
appreciate it. I think that SEQ and field /code tag solutions may come
closest to what I am looking for. The problem is that I didn't use Word's
built-in "chapter".

Unfortunately also, the listnum solution conflicts with my already outlined
headers built with styles.

See everything I had learned before was always about using styles for every
little thing and now, it seems as though these styles limit the formatting a
bit too much. That is unless you use the good ol' Microsoft built-in styles.
Every style in this document is custom so as to not affect a user's
individual normal.dot. So basically what I need is a way to have my image
and table captions automatically number themselves with a <chapter/section
number dot number of image/table = i.e. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1,
3.2, 3.3...>

Is there a way maybe that Word flags all tables and images that I don't know
about? That would be wonderful. Or a way to mark my own first level header
(which is the equivalent of my section/chapter number and title)?

You guys are great :) Thank you very much!

On 6/8/06, Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:


I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do. If you mean having tables be
numbered as 1-1 for the first one in chapter 1 and 3-2 for the second one in
chapter 3, you should be able to use SEQ fields. Set up one sequence that
increments per chapter, and a second that increments per table or
figure. Use the /c switch with a SEQ field you don't want to increment (
i.e. for all the chapter number fields after the first one per
chapter). Use the /r switch on the first instance of the image/table number
in each chapter to reset it to 1.

Assuming that you call the chapter sequence chapter and the item sequence
item, the first label in a chapter would look like this: {SEQ chapter} -
{SEQ item/r 1}: My Item Title.

The second label in the chapter would look like this: {SEQ chapter /c} -
{SEQ item}: Another Item Title.

Look up SEQ in the Word help for more details.


- Jessica Weissman
Hillcrest Laboratories


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Subject: numbering image/table captions with chapter numbers in ms
wordwithout using built-headings

Hi,

Was wondering if any one had devised a way to number image/table captions
with chapter numbers in MS Word without using built-headings. My documents
use completely custom headings and I do not want to modify the built-in MS
headings. If you were to use the built-in MS Word caption function (under
Insert > Reference) then your only options appear to be the built-in
headers. I've tried using field codes and all sorts of style
implementations. I'm also not interested in using section breaks (in case
that happens to be a solution). These are pretty large documents with all
sorts of custom-defined styles and etc. minimizing the use of things such
as
section breaks, and self-created paragraphs, etc. If you happen to have an
answer, I would be so very very very very happy! Yes, I say that with
that
much enthusiasm because right about now I'm starting to believe MS Word to
be my mortal enemy :p

Thank you so much!
pj
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References:
numbering image/table captions with chapter numbers in ms word without using built-headings: From: peri jstar
RE: numbering image/table captions with chapter numbers in ms wordwithout using built-headings: From: Jessica Weissman

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