Problem with Caption Stylesheet

[LAS in STL]

I have a stylesheet called "Caption" that I can't seem to debug in Word 2003
(I just moved to a new PC from a machine that's running Office 2000.). Part
of the sheet includes customized numbering, i.e., you open the style sheet,
select Format, select Numbering, select Customize....and then you set the
numbering to say "Figure x-1:", where x is the unit number.

I use this sheet for captioning diagrams, adding the desired text after the
figure number. Using Word 2000, I was able to get my captions to look like
this, to give you an example:

Figure 2-1: Mountains at Sunset

My problem is that in Word 2003, I can't seem to tweak the stylesheet, and
it is giving me this:

Figure 2-1: Mountains at Sunset

I can't seem to get rid of the tab between the "Figure 6-1:" pre-fill (which
comes in the style sheet) and the text that I add manually following the
pre-fill. So there's this big space between the colon and the rest of the
text.

Word Help only seems to have info for setting up captioning if you use
standard headers like "Header1," Header2," and so on. We don't use those
headers where I work, so this is not an option.

Does anyone know how I can set up the style sheet to achieve the effect I'm
looking for? Many thanks for any info on this.

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi LAS in STL

To help you, I think we're going to have to settle on some common
terminology so we are all talking about the same things.
When you say "stylesheet" do you mean a .CSS stylesheet file? A Word
template (ie a .dot file)? Or a style within a Word document?
Headers are things that repeat at the top of each page (eg a page number)
and are analogous to footers at the bottom of each page. There is one
built-in Header style in each Word document. Word also has 9 built-in
heading styles: Heading 1, Heading 2 etc. Are these what you mean?

And if you're not using the built-in heading styles, see
Why use Microsoft Word's built-in heading styles?
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/numbering/UseBuiltInHeadingStyles.html

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word