I wish I could have edited my last post as the information has changed
slightly...

Upon playing with it further, two issues are evident to me. First, the
"correct" (I'll explain why I use quotes around 'correct' shortly) figure
captioning takes place ONLY when my headings use the default Heading styles,
modified or otherwise. This is contrary to my last post where I suggested it
also worked with any newly created styles that were linked to the default
Headings... I quickly determined after my last post that just wasn't the
case. So, I'm losing something in the process of creating my own style and
simply linking the default Heading style to it.

Second, if I am using the deault Headings directly, I can't seem to get the
entire chapter/subchapter number to appear in the caption. It shows the
chapter number (e.g., "Figure 2.1", "Figure 2.2", etc.), but not the
subchapter the figure resides in (e.g., "Figure 2.6.1", "Figure 2.6.2",
etc.). It was doing this yesterday, so no idea why it's doing something
different today.

Oh, and Suzanne... I've been reading some of the MVP posts on numbering you
linked to.... Microsoft has REALLY made it a scary format, highly prone to
corruption by merely breathing on it. I'm toughing it out, thought


"MacGyverS2000" wrote:

Did it solve my problem? Yes, and no...

When I set up the default Headings exactly as described, then create a new
set of Headings that does nothing but copy the default Headings exactly
("Style based on" Heading 1, 2, etc.), it works as designed.

Next, I edited the new set to make one minor change... the "Number format"
for each heading in the list begins with the letter B (same format as the
rest of the document, but this is for Appendix B). The moment I do that,
things go back to the same state as in the original post (i.e., no chapter
headings, so captions fail to display properly).

Word may be extremely powerful, but if you can't use any of that power...

sigh I will start with my previous template and try again...