[Stefan Blom]

Yes, the fact that Word is trying to be helpful is sometimes a problem. :-)

In order to modify a *single* caption (as opposed to all captions of a
certain type), delete it and reinsert it, as you've noticed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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On Feb 5, 5:58 pm, Karen C. wrote:
I am having the same problem. I use thetablecaptionand it changes all
thefigurecaptions totablecaptions. I think the problem started when I
tried
to use a newcaptionlabel (tableapx) for my tables in the appendix. I got
rid of those labels hoping that it would solve the problem, but to no
avail.
I don't mind putting in all of the labels again only if I knew how to
reset
them. Any help would be appreciated.



"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Note that if you select acaptionin the text, and then change the type of
caption(in theCaptiondialog box),Wordchanges all of the captions of the
selected type. This is a possible reason for the problem you have
encountered (but, from your description, I'm not sure that it applies).

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Stefan Blom
MicrosoftWordMVP

"Henlo" wrote in message
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Thanks Henk, but when I tried again today to insert acaptionwith its
reference, both the figures and tables worked without a problem! I
still
can't understand what happened, but I suspect it might have something
to
do
with the template I've used and the styles associated with it.

"Henk57" wrote:

This is odd. Cld it be you overwrote the captions in the body text?
The built-incaptionis a field and will be automatically restored when
you update the document. I suggest to define aCaption-Fig and a
Caption-Tbl style with the correct settings. Then they will never be
mixed up.
Henlo;2492330 Wrote:
I have read this discussion "Links toTableandFigureNumbers" in
search of
an answer to my problem: I have both figures and tables with field
captions
and field references to them. However, while adding a newtable, I
noticed
that my previous "figure" captions have all changed to "table"
captions,
losing the cross reference fields ("Error...."). When I tried to
change
it,
they al changed to "figure" captions. How did this happen? How can
I
get it
right?

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Henk57- Hide quoted text -

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I have found that if I change an existing caption from table to figure
or figure to table, the software changes all the captions in the
document to this setting. I think that this is supposed to be a
"feature". In order to make the change properly we have found that if
you control C on the text, delete the caption line, insert the new
caption label and number, press OK, and then control V the text into
the line on your page, it seems to work. I know this seems to be a
long way to do it, but it beats copying everything into a new
template. The key here is to delete the existing caption before
inserting the new one.
rewire2000