Table caption numbering

[Karen]

I am working on a document with many tables, figures and boxes. I am
manually adding captions to the existing tables/figures and boxes. For some
reason, I can't continue numbering my table after "Table 2.12". It restarts
with "Table 3.1" instead of going forward with "Table 2.13".

Please help.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Is this caption numbering with heading numbers included (as indicated by the
x.y format)?

If you want to keep the chapter numbering, just remove the Heading 2
paragraph before "Table 3.1." Then switch to Print Preview and back to
update caption numbers.

If you want to get rid of chapter numbering, display the Caption dialog box:
Insert | Reference | Caption (Word 2003) or References tab | Insert Caption
(Word 2007). Click Numbering. Clear the check mark next to "Include chapter
number" and click OK, Close. Switch to print preview and back to update
caption numbers.

 

[Karen]

Thanks. I need to keep the chapter numberings. Is there anyway to keep both
the headings and caption numbers?

I unchecked the "chapter number" box and added a new Label as "Table 2."
instead of just "Table". This give me the numbering format I want: "Table 2.
1, Table 2. 2 etc" However, I can't delete the space between the period "."
and the autonumber "1".

I have 5 chapters and all figures/tables/boxes in the chapter must begin
with the number of the chapter (i.e. Figure 1.1, Figure 1.2 for figures in
Chapter 1; Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2 for figures in Chapter 2). So Figure 4 in
chapter 2 should be "Figure 2.4" and so on. Each chapter has several
headings - sometimes up to level 5 headings. I do not want the caption
numbers to run with the heading but with the chapter. Can that be done?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Use the Caption Numbering dialog box (Insert | Reference | Caption, click
the Numbering button) to determine after which heading caption numbers
should restart. The restarts occur only after the chosen heading level. If
you want to prevent restarting after a certain paragraph, don't apply the
heading style to it. Use a different style (a heading or non-heading style).
You can format it as you like.