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Captions under pictures
I have a document that will have about 20 pictures. I'd like to use the
caption method for each picture with automatic numbering. I've tried it over and over and it is certainly user unfriendly, in fact does not work. I want each one to look like this "Figure 1. Text" If I enter this as a "new label" it shows in bold as "Figure 1. Text 1 1" Why that extra 1? Even though the auto number is enabled it just puts a 2 at the end. This certainly can't be how it is supposed to work. Any ideas how to do this? Right now I'm simply tying the caption in myself. Thanks in advance. |
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Captions under pictures
Hi Eht_remmir,
I have a document that will have about 20 pictures. I'd like to use the caption method for each picture with automatic numbering. I've tried it over and over and it is certainly user unfriendly, in fact does not work. I want each one to look like this "Figure 1. Text" If I enter this as a "new label" it shows in bold as "Figure 1. Text 1 1" Why that extra 1? Even though the auto number is enabled it just puts a 2 at the end. This certainly can't be how it is supposed to work. Hmmm. You create a new label and literally type: Figure 1. Text What about creating a new label that contains just: Figure The label will show everything you type into it... If I've misunderstood your problem description, could you please rephrase? And tell us which version of Word you're using? Further thoughts: Is it possible you've already defined a label with the same "name" - Figure 1. Text - so Word is putting the 1 in there to differentiate from the existing label? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Captions under pictures
I think there is a misunderstanding about how the Caption feature works. In
the Insert | Reference | Caption dialog, you can select "Figure" as the type of label; in fact, it's selected by default, so that when you first open the dialog, it displays "Figure 1." You type any desired punctuation (in your case, a period) after this, then the desired text. The next time you insert a caption, you'll be presented with "Figure 2," and you type your desired caption. When you click on New Label, you are defining a new *type* or category of caption. You can't use "Figure" because it's already a built-in label type. But you don't need to define a new label for figures; you just select the built-in one. If you wanted captions that said, for example, "Photo 1. Description of the photo," then you could create a "Photo" label and select it as needed. (One caveat he the label definitions are stored in the Registry of your machine, so they will not be available to other users if you share the document.) That said, the number used for any caption is just a SEQ field. If you're getting excess numbers, try pressing Alt+F9 to display the underlying field codes. You can safely delete any extraneous codes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "eht_remmir" wrote in message ... I have a document that will have about 20 pictures. I'd like to use the caption method for each picture with automatic numbering. I've tried it over and over and it is certainly user unfriendly, in fact does not work. I want each one to look like this "Figure 1. Text" If I enter this as a "new label" it shows in bold as "Figure 1. Text 1 1" Why that extra 1? Even though the auto number is enabled it just puts a 2 at the end. This certainly can't be how it is supposed to work. Any ideas how to do this? Right now I'm simply tying the caption in myself. Thanks in advance. |
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