The empty paragraphs into which you're inserting figures are not in the
Caption style? I would expect them to be if they were created by pressing
Enter at the end of a caption. I think you'll find if you change the style
to, say, Normal or Body Text or (best of all) a custom Figure or Graphic
style, both your problems will be solved.

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"J Streger" wrote in message
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I am working in Word 2000, and I am having a lot of problems with field
codes
skipping numbers and with the table of figures as well:

Skipping Numbers:

The caption field code is: SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1

What we find is that we have figure, say A-8, and then the next figure in
the series is Figure A-13. There are no instances of the caption style in
between the 2 captions, no other text, no pictures, no breaks, only 3
Hard
Returns. If I try to enter a caption through Insert--Caption..., it shows
Figure's A-8 and then A-13.

TOF:

In that same blank area as above I tried to insert a picture into the 2nd
of
the 3 hard returns. The picture then appeared in the TOF as a new figure,
with no caption. I did not have to add a caption at all, and the actual
picture is appearing in the TOF.

The TOC field code is: TOC \h \z \c "Figure"
The Individual entry code is: HYPERLINK \l "_Toc96939171"

Any help on these 2 problems would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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J Streger
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