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I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! |
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Captions are inserted as fields and although they do renumber as you create
them they don't automatically update when you move them around [which, BTW, is not a good idea]. In order to get them updated you can use Ctrl+A to select All then right-click one of the caption numbers to select Update Field. Another option is to go into Word Options Display, add the check for "Update fields before printing" so teh fields will update if you switch to Print Preview or Print the document. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP wrote in message ... Hi, I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! |
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On Feb 25, 9:46*pm, "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote:
Captions are inserted as fields and although they do renumber as you create them they don't automatically update when you move them around [which, BTW, is not a good idea]. In order to get them updated you can use Ctrl+A to select All then right-click one of the caption numbers to select Update Field. Another option is to go into Word Options Display, add the check for "Update fields before printing" so teh fields will update if you switch to Print Preview or Print the document. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP wrote in message ... Hi, I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! Thanks, Cyber Taz, you were fast answering here! Tried all these options before posting, also closed the document and opened again, updating fields after that (makes no-sense, I suppose). Caption behavior was the same. Three figure on a single page have captions in descending order starting from top, not intentionally. As captions are in a text box, I tried to arrange them to obtain a normal order, but surprise!, they changed the numbers to keep the descending order?! Also tried to use parameters for SEQ to force numbering restart - again no success. I imagine hat something is wrong with SEQ table, but I cannot find how/where to see it. Finally I changed captions to normal paragraph and figures to in-line alignment. These seems to solve the order problem. But still interested to understand what is happening! |
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![]() wrote in message ... On Feb 25, 9:46 pm, "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote: Captions are inserted as fields and although they do renumber as you create them they don't automatically update when you move them around [which, BTW, is not a good idea]. In order to get them updated you can use Ctrl+A to select All then right-click one of the caption numbers to select Update Field. Another option is to go into Word Options Display, add the check for "Update fields before printing" so teh fields will update if you switch to Print Preview or Print the document. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP wrote in message ... Hi, I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! Thanks, Cyber Taz, you were fast answering here! Tried all these options before posting, also closed the document and opened again, updating fields after that (makes no-sense, I suppose). Caption behavior was the same. Three figure on a single page have captions in descending order starting from top, not intentionally. As captions are in a text box, I tried to arrange them to obtain a normal order, but surprise!, they changed the numbers to keep the descending order?! Also tried to use parameters for SEQ to force numbering restart - again no success. I imagine hat something is wrong with SEQ table, but I cannot find how/where to see it. Finally I changed captions to normal paragraph and figures to in-line alignment. These seems to solve the order problem. But still interested to understand what is happening! OK, I see where your base problem most likely lies. If the Text Boxes containing the captions are formatted with any type of Text Wrapping [IOW, not In Line with Text] they are not a part of the text flow & that's what prevents them from updating. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP |
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On Feb 25, 11:14*pm, "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote:
wrote in message ... On Feb 25, 9:46 pm, "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote: Captions are inserted as fields and although they do renumber as you create them they don't automatically update when you move them around [which, BTW, is not a good idea]. In order to get them updated you can use Ctrl+A to select All then right-click one of the caption numbers to select Update Field. Another option is to go into Word Options Display, add the check for "Update fields before printing" so teh fields will update if you switch to Print Preview or Print the document. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP wrote in message .... Hi, I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! Thanks, Cyber Taz, you were fast answering here! Tried all these options before posting, also closed the document and opened again, updating fields after that (makes no-sense, I suppose). Caption behavior was the same. Three figure on a single page have captions in descending order starting from top, not intentionally. As captions are in a text box, I tried to arrange them to obtain a normal order, but surprise!, they changed the numbers to keep the descending order?! Also tried to use parameters for SEQ to force numbering restart - again no success. I imagine hat something is wrong with SEQ table, but I cannot find how/where to see it. Finally I changed captions to normal paragraph and figures to in-line alignment. These seems to solve the order problem. But still interested to understand what is happening! OK, I see where your base problem most likely lies. If the Text Boxes containing the captions are formatted with any type of Text Wrapping [IOW, not In Line with Text] they are not a part of the text flow & that's what prevents them from updating. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP Thanks... it make sense; tried to check but this time the error didn't replicate! I'll keep my eyes on it. |
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In addition, if they were moved without moving the anchors, the order would
remain the same, as the order of the anchors determines the order of text boxes, frames, etc. Putting captions in text boxes is in general a Bad Idea (making one wonder whose brilliant idea it was for this to be the Word default for captions of wrapped objects). As a general rule, figures are best dealt with inline (with inline captions); when it is necessary to wrap text around the figure and caption, then putting both together in a frame works best, with the added advantage that Word can "see" the caption for purposes of creating cross-references or a Table of Figures. Word 2007 can see text in text boxes for these purposes, but previous versions cannot. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote in message ... wrote in message ... On Feb 25, 9:46 pm, "CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote: Captions are inserted as fields and although they do renumber as you create them they don't automatically update when you move them around [which, BTW, is not a good idea]. In order to get them updated you can use Ctrl+A to select All then right-click one of the caption numbers to select Update Field. Another option is to go into Word Options Display, add the check for "Update fields before printing" so teh fields will update if you switch to Print Preview or Print the document. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP wrote in message ... Hi, I'm using word 2007 on Win XP sp3; in a docx document I'm trying to use Insert caption /figure command; it starts well, but after some changes in document (e.g moving paragraphs, arranging pages) have observed that figures' numbers went crazy: number 3 before number 2 aso. Hardly tried to get back to the right order, without success. Any ideea what's happening? Thanks! Thanks, Cyber Taz, you were fast answering here! Tried all these options before posting, also closed the document and opened again, updating fields after that (makes no-sense, I suppose). Caption behavior was the same. Three figure on a single page have captions in descending order starting from top, not intentionally. As captions are in a text box, I tried to arrange them to obtain a normal order, but surprise!, they changed the numbers to keep the descending order?! Also tried to use parameters for SEQ to force numbering restart - again no success. I imagine hat something is wrong with SEQ table, but I cannot find how/where to see it. Finally I changed captions to normal paragraph and figures to in-line alignment. These seems to solve the order problem. But still interested to understand what is happening! OK, I see where your base problem most likely lies. If the Text Boxes containing the captions are formatted with any type of Text Wrapping [IOW, not In Line with Text] they are not a part of the text flow & that's what prevents them from updating. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP |
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