Renumbering SEQ fields after reorganizing document

[JLAR]

(Working in Word 2007).

I've created numerous illustrations in a document, and after inserting and
selecting each image I used Right-click > Insert Caption. So far, so good.

After I reorganized the document, based on information found in (old) MVP
posts, I selected all (Ctrl+A) and pressed F9 in the hope of updating all
fields, including the "SEQ Figure..." fields created by Insert Caption
feature.

Contrary to expectation, although Ctrl+A did in fact highlight all the
captions' fields, they were not renumbered.

WORKAROUND: (Totally unsatisfactory) Manually select the caption number of
each and every figure that was relocated, and press F9.

Questions:
1) Is there a way to make this work as expected?

2) If not through the GUI, how can this be done using a macro?

Thank you.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Pressing Ctrl+A, F9 should be working. I'm wondering if there's something in
your document that's preventing it.

What happens if you select from the beginning of the document to
intermediate points? Does Ctrl+A, F9 work then?

If so, I would try to gradually expand the selection to determine where it's
breaking down. I've tried a number of different scenarios here, and haven't
been able to make it NOT work correctly.