Suzanne,

That works for me!! I created a caption outside the table and then
pasted it inside that table on multiple rows. Hitting F9 forces an
update to the number in the field code. Thanks very much.

In reference to Tony's email, I'm an engineer trying to make a simple
test case matrix in a table. Each row of my table defines a test case.
I'm simply using the caption as an identifying mark for the
information in the row of the table. Then in the text of the document
I can use cross-reference to refer to specific test cases in the table.
Captions ensures that if I insert new test cases, that my cross
references are still valid. There are database applications that
support this type of thing but Word is excellent for doing this on a
smaller scale.

Eventually I'd like to "freeze" my captions (with their numeric IDs)
somewhat like "paste as value" in excel, but that's something for
another day.

Jan

Jan