Sanne Heesmans wrote:
In my document I have a lot of figures, under all of them I inserted
a figure caption. Some of these captions are written in a textbox
(there I have text around the figure and don't want to much white
between the text above and under the caption). I can't refer to these
captions in a textbox and they also don't show up in my table of
figures. What can I do about it?

Convert the text boxes to frames -- there's a button for that in the Format
Text Box dialog.

Text boxes are in the drawing layer, which is why the table field can't see
them. Frames are in the text layer.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org