[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That being the case, I think you need to treat the document as corrupt. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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"bufossil" wrote in message
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Thanks for trying to help Suzanne. What you describe below is precisely
what
I did when I created the document originally, where I had about 30 Figure
captions and 30 Table captions. The problem is that Word converted all
Table
captions to Figure captions, so that now all 60+ captions are Figure
captions. If I change any single one of the Figure captions to a Table
caption, then Word converts all 60+ captions to Table captions. Right now
in
my document, Word is not allowing me to have both Table and Figure
captions
at the same time.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you insert the captions using Insert | Reference | Caption, you can
choose either Figure or Table as the label. Choose the appropriate one
in
each case, and the result will be Figure {SEQ Figure \* ARABIC} for the
figures and Table { SEQ Table \* ARABIC } for the tables.

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"bufossil" wrote in message
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For a while I thought the following solution was going to work:

1. If the first caption in the document point to a Figure (which means
all
Figures and Tables in the document are called "Figure"), navigate down
the
document and find the first table.
2. Toggle the Field Codes on.
3. You see something like: Figure{SEQ Figure \* ARABIC}
4. Manually change both instances of "Figure" to "Table."
5. The preliminary indication was that Word would now allow both Table
captions and Figure captions in the same document at the same time.

However, upon further analysis, this did not fix the problem.
Apparently,
when you manually overwrite "Figure" and replace it with "Table," Word
still
thinks that everyting is a "Figure" and does not retain a separate
numbering
system for the objects that now appear as "Tables" in the Field Codes.

Still requesting assistance for this one. Thanks!

"bufossil" wrote:

When I reveal the Field Codes with Alt + F9, this is what I see.

The caption itself = Figure{ SEQ Figure \* ARABIC}

The cross-reference = { REF _Ref165352750 \h \* MERGEFORMAT }

I think everything in the field codes is normal, with the exception
of
the
"\* MERGEFORMAT" part. However, the captions themselves are what
seem
to be
corrupted, not the cross-references to them.

Any ideas about how to correct the problem would be appreciated.

Thanks!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Did you create some captions manually? Note that if you later make
some
modification in the Caption dialog box (for example, changing the
number
format), Word will try to alter all captions (of the same type),
which
could destroy any manual changes.

What are the field codes of the problem captions? Press Alt+F9 to
find
out.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"bufossil" wrote in message
...
I forgot to mention, I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP SP2.
Thanks!

"bufossil" wrote:

I am working in a 100+ page document that contains about 30
figures
and
about 30 tables. Without warning, Word converted all captions
to
Table
captions. If I change any of the Table captions back to a
Figure
caption,
all captions convert to Figure captions.

Does anyone know what is going on? I found 1 person on the
Web
(on
a
different Web site) that had the same problem, but no one
provided
a
suggestion.

Thanks!