Sections of Text Being Marked as Figures

[Shasaja]

When I add and position images in a Word 2007 document, it will (apparently
randomly) decide that some sections of text are figures. They can be edited
as usual, but this messes up the automatic figure numbering in image
captions. If the document has an automatically updating field for the
figures, it will insert the whole body of text that it thinks is a figure
into the table (this is sometimes several paragraphs). Deleting and
re-typing the text does not seem to help (this can also be very
time-consuming to re-type several sections that add up to a few pages in
larger documents).

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're describing here... How did you
create caption numbers? Via auto numbering or via fields?

Are the captions (or caption numbers) actually being duplicated or are
unnumbered paragraphs being included in the table of figures?

 

[Shasaja]

I created the captions using auto numbering (right click on the image and
select "insert caption"). I am not sure how the field listing the figures
was set up, as it was created by an associate working on a collaborative
project. The problem I am having with sections of text being treated like
figures for the purpose of numbering also occurs in separate document files
that only contain text and figures labeled using the "insert caption" tool as
described above. The text cannot be manipulated like an image, and no
caption can be added, but it will cause the auto-numbering of the figure
captions to skip the numbers that have been assigned to sections of text.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Press Alt+F9 to find out which field code is being used for the table of
figures.