[Paul]

OK, thanks for letting me know the situation. Not the end of the
world. I can use my god-given fingers to do it manually!

On May 25, 11:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I think I get the picture now. I don't think there's any way to do this
automatically.

"Paul" wrote:
I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't
want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I
was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number
bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it
before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using
a different word processor.

On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold.
Modify
it again to make it bold.

"Paul" wrote :
That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number
bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of
label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an
imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named
style.

On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption
feature.
Does
it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar?

"Paul" wrote:
...

My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and
Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to
go away?

On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:
To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by
default,
but
there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all
captions.
You
can have different ones for table and figure captions (though
you'll
have
to
apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always
applied
to
captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will
result
in
a
difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of
Tables
(they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an
issue.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

"Paul" wrote in message
...
How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption?

Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the
label.
There
is
no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create
AutoText
entries
to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box).

P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus
figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective
tables,
so I've turned on Keep With Next.

P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but
sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a
2(h)x1(w)
table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two
cells
from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found
such
a
table property. Is there one?

You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will
keep
it
together with the following row (or with the following paragraph,
if
you
apply the formatting to the last row of the table).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP