[Ron]

Well, I still can't figure out how to get my cross-refernces and captions to
update properly.

So if anyone has any ideas, they'd be greatly appreciated.

Here's my old post:

I work with large user manuals containing many figure and table captions
which are cross-referenced.

Since I'm writing similar documents for multiple products, I do a lot of
copying and pasting paragraphs, tables, etc. between sections and documents.

My basic problem is with keeping the numbering of my cross-references tied
to their respective captions. If I copy/move one section to another place in
my document, the captions can be updated, but their cross-references can't.

How can I keep a cross-reference "linked" to its corresponding caption
regardless of where I copy/move them to?

Here's an example.

Imagine the following is in section 2 of "document 1".

The physical dimensions of the ???? are listed below and shown in Figure
2-2.

some image here

Figure 2-2: ???? Physical Dimensions

So, the first sentence has a cross-reference (Figure 2-2) to the cation
(Figure 2-2) in the table.

Now, I copy the sentence and table above and paste it into section 5 of
"document 2". I update my fields and the following is the result.

The physical dimensions of the ???? are listed below and shown in Figure
2-2.

some image here

Figure 5-9: ???? Physical Dimensions

You see how the cross-reference remains as "Figure 2-2", but the caption
updates as Figure 5-9.

What I would like to have happen is that both the cross-reference and
caption update to the correct placement in the new document; updated to
"Figure 5-9" and Figure 5-9 for the above example.

In this way, you could imagine the cross-reference and caption are "linked"
together in some way and are always updated correctly regardless of where
they are pasted to in another document.

I hope this explanation helps.