[Gordon]

Graham Mayor wrote:
You have wasted more of your (and our) time whingeing about a function that
does what it is intended to do - rather than what you want it to do. This is
not how it works, nor ever has in Word - get over it!

I repeat - arrogance of MS. It is NOT how "ORDINARY" users define a
caption. And WHY is there nothing in help to say that the field CAN be
deleted?