[Gordon]

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Because the caption feature is intended to make it easy to apply
sequential
numbered captions for figures and tables. The "label" is "Figure 1" or
"Table 1" or a custom label such as "Exhibit 1."

That's absolutely fine - BUT, that function should be something the user
turns on IF they want it - it should NOT be automatic and by default. Or,
under Number formatting there should be an option for none. I wasted at
least an hour and a half of fruitless time yesterday trying to find how to
turn it off. There is NOTHING in Office online Help about the fact that you
can in fact just delete the field after having created the caption.