Re: Word 97: Automatic numbering of captions

Subject: Re: Word 97: Automatic numbering of captions
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:57:39 -0500

In our previous episode, Kelly Anderson said:
>
> I've got some documents that were converted from Word 7 to Word 97 and
> I'm having some problems with automatic numbering of captions. In
> short, the automatic sequential number of captions is not working. In
> chapter 1 of my document, all 15 figures are numbered 1-1.
>
> I checked out the field codes (see below), but I don't see anything
> wrong with them.
>
> Figure {STYLEREF 1 \S} - {SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1}
>
> Can you help?

Looks okay to me. Dumb question: Have you tried selecting the text in
the chapter and pressing F9 to update the field codes?

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