Hi Modoc,
I numbered my figures based on chapter number ("Heading 1"), e.g. Figure 1.1,
Figure 1.2, ..., Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2, Figure 2.3 etc..
Now I would like to have different captions for figures that belong together
and number them with small leters, e.g. Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2.a, Figure
2.2.b, Figure 2.3 etc...
If you press Alt+F9 to view the field codes, you'll see that Word uses a
combination of StyleRef and SEQ fields to create the caption numbering. You can
(manually) add an additional SEQ field to this that uses the \* alphabetic
switch to number using lower case letters:
{ SEQ GroupNum \* alphabetic }
So the entire field combination would look something like this:
{StyleRef "Heading 1"}.{SEQ Caption}.{ SEQ GroupNum \* alphabetic }
Please note that you have to use Ctrl+F9 to insert the field { brackets } in
order to have them recognized as identifying a field.
To make this more automatic, you could select the field code (plus the preceding
period) and create an AutoText or an AutoCorrect entry. This will allow you to
insert the code using a keyboard shortcut, rather than having to type it "from
scratch".
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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