Indeed; the nonbreaking hyphen does look enough like an en dash that I have
to toggle nonprinting characters to make sure that I've actually inserted a
nonbreaking hyphen and not absent-mindedly used an en dash instead.
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"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message
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In another case I had selected a hyphen as the separator ("Figure 4-1")
but
found that Word kept changing the hyphen separator to an en-dash ("Figure
7€“1).
I had that problem for several days last summer. I tried everything, even
considered replacing the "en dashes" with hyphens just the job was
finished.
Then, I happened to switch off formatting marks while on a page with a
caption, and what do you know, the "hyphens" were right there. I
suspect
that Word does not use the regular hyphen between the numbers because they
would wrap near line endings.
In W2007, to change the numbering in captions, go to insert caption; click
the numbering button; and make your changes. All captions with the same
label
should reflect your changes.
Pam
David Newmarch wrote:
I can't work out how to edit the numbering style for captions (with
inclusion
of the chapter number).
The problem has been trying to change the separator in the caption number.
In one case I had decided on the form "Figure 4.1" etc., and then wanted
to
change that to "Figure 4-1", etc.
In another case I had selected a hyphen as the separator ("Figure 4-1")
but
found that Word kept changing the hyphen separator to an en-dash ("Figure
7€“1). So in that case the problem was also to try and force the caption
numbering to use the hyphen. (So that's really two problems I have.)
Right-clicking and going to "Define new number format" doesn't do it. And
I
can't a way to change the separator within the field code, because the
code
itself doesn't contain the separator.
So far my only solution has been to try deleting the initial caption and
then reinserting it with the correct separator. But that seems to create a
new set of problems because Word apparently still continues to see the
deleted caption which throws out the numbering sequence. (I guess that
makes
a total of three problems!)
Any guidance will be much appreciated.
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