Caption Numbering in a long document

[Joseph Talbott]

I posted this last week but didn't get any response. I am reposting just in
case the reason was that it looked like I may have answered my own question -
which I didn't.
I am using MS Word 2003 in a Windows XP Pro environment.
I am working on a document with many (100+) figures with captions that are
located in various chapters, sections and subsections. I don't have a problem
numbering the caption automatically with the appropriate heading level but
when I adjust the caption heading level in the caption dialog box (e.g. from
H3 to H4) all of my previously created H3 headings are changed to H4 level
headings. In shorter documents I have simply gone back and adjusted the \s 4
to \s 3 (or as appropriate) after completing the document but that is getting
rather tedious with the large number of figures that I am adding.
Is there an easy way to turn off the automatic updating of my previous
caption levels. I have already toggled the auto updating of fields off as I
want to control all updates. Do I need to set a caption style for each level
desired? And will this solve the problem without introducing other problems
when I build my list of figures?
Joe

 

[Stefan Blom]

When you select "Include chapter number" in the Caption Numbering dialog
box, your choice applies to *all* captions using that particular label;
there is no way around that. What you can do is what you are already doing:
adjust the field code manually. Alternatively, create a separate caption
label as needed (but that may be a time-consuming task).

 

[Joseph Talbott]

I was afraid of that. I will try the "create a separate caption label" option
and see if that buys me any time. So far I have simply inserted all of the
tables, added the captions - using the heading level that is dominant in the
document - and then gone back and reset the captions the needed a connection
to a different leve. It's not elegant and it falls apart during an update but
it works.
Thanks,
Joe

 

[Stefan Blom]

Thank you for the feedback.