No, REF fields don't update automatically. You have to Ctrl+A, F9 to update
them.

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"Jeff" wrote in message
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Thanks.

I hope I have not accidentally turned off automatic updating of these
fields. I ask because I notice that when I move an image, the figure
number
does not update "automatically" unless I click on it and specifically ask
it
to "update". Should this update not happen automatically when the order
of
the images change?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Insert | Cross-reference (Insert | Reference | Cross-reference in Word
2002/2003).


"Jeff" wrote in message
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I think I used to know how to do this, but no longer remember.

In a text I am writing, I would occasionally write "Fig x" referring
to an illustration somewhere in the text. I believe there is a way
to link that reference to the image I am referring to so that should
that Figure number later change, the reference in the text would
also correct itself automatically. I only want the text reference to
show the figure number, not the rest of the caption text description.

How is that done?

Thanks.

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Jeff Stevens
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