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I am using Word 2003, and I have a large document with separate files for
each chapter. There are tables in these chapters, with an Arabic number for
each (Table 1, Table 2, etc); the numbers just increase by one for the whole
document. In each file, I start the table numbering at the new value, by
using the field code \r n, where "n" is the number I want to start at for
this chapter (e.g., start with Table 20, instead of Table 1).

All was working fine, and the numbering worked perfectly, even for the Table
of Contents...until I needed to convert the document to PDF. Inexplicably
(and only for a subset of the files), the output file restarted the tables
numbering at "1", even though the .doc file would show that the table caption
read "20". So the PDF version had the wrong numbers.

Somehow, the PDF conversion is ignoring the table numbering offset used in
the field code. Any ideas on how to make the PDF match the Word numbering?