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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blah blahblah
Hi,
I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blah blah blah
The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by
pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blah blah blah
The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by
pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blahblah blah
On Jan 22, 1:58*pm, "Stefan Blom"
wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blahblah blah
On Jan 22, 1:58*pm, "Stefan Blom"
wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blahblah blah
On Jan 25, 8:55*am, BHW wrote:
On Jan 22, 1:58*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message .... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! I tried the following: 1) alt F9 to show codes 2) find ^d SEQ / replace with "^& " (note space after &) 3) alt F9 to hide codes 4) find " ." and replace with "." 5) select all, F9 to update cross refs - seems to get rid of period after cross ref. Not sure why period ever showed up in the first place. |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blahblah blah
On Jan 25, 8:55*am, BHW wrote:
On Jan 22, 1:58*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message .... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! I tried the following: 1) alt F9 to show codes 2) find ^d SEQ / replace with "^& " (note space after &) 3) alt F9 to hide codes 4) find " ." and replace with "." 5) select all, F9 to update cross refs - seems to get rid of period after cross ref. Not sure why period ever showed up in the first place. |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blah blah blah
I'm glad you got it sorted.
Since ^d SEQ should only find SEQ fields, not the REF fields used by cross-references, perhaps you just used ^d (and not ^d SEQ) the first time you tried the replace operation? Searching for ^d would find any field. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... On Jan 25, 8:55 am, BHW wrote: On Jan 22, 1:58 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! I tried the following: 1) alt F9 to show codes 2) find ^d SEQ / replace with "^& " (note space after &) 3) alt F9 to hide codes 4) find " ." and replace with "." 5) select all, F9 to update cross refs - seems to get rid of period after cross ref. Not sure why period ever showed up in the first place. |
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Updating captions from Table 1 blah blah blah to Table 1. blah blah blah
I'm glad you got it sorted.
Since ^d SEQ should only find SEQ fields, not the REF fields used by cross-references, perhaps you just used ^d (and not ^d SEQ) the first time you tried the replace operation? Searching for ^d would find any field. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... On Jan 25, 8:55 am, BHW wrote: On Jan 22, 1:58 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: The following should work: Show field codes in Word, which you can do by pressing Alt+F9 (acts as a toggle). Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. "Find what": ^d SEQ "Replace with": ^&. Click Replace All. When you are done, hide field codes again. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "BHW" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a doc w/about 100 tables/figures. Style guidelines suggest captions read Table X. blah blah blah Is there a way (other than manual) to update my existing captions, which lack the "." after the table number? Also, I don't want the figure/table TOCs affected. I tried wildcards/ search/replace, but the wildcards don't seem to like the field codes that are behind the table and figure numbers, e.g.{ SEQ Table \* ARABIC } " Thanks! This ... kind of worked great, but kind of didn't. The figure captions indeed show up as Figure 1. blah blah blah, but a cross reference to that figure now reads "In Figure 1. we see that ..." I don't want the "." in the cross reference - looks like the end of a sentence. I think the solution is to (1) remove the period that's become part of the SEQ and (2) add the period to the caption, e.g., Figure 1 (automatically generated) and ". blah blah blah" - Or is there a simpler work around? Anyway, thanks for the first suggestion. Can you help with this one? Thanks! I tried the following: 1) alt F9 to show codes 2) find ^d SEQ / replace with "^& " (note space after &) 3) alt F9 to hide codes 4) find " ." and replace with "." 5) select all, F9 to update cross refs - seems to get rid of period after cross ref. Not sure why period ever showed up in the first place. |
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