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Hi, I have just brought together all the chapters of my thesis today. I am
struggling with getting chapter numbers in the caption. i have used heading 1
for my chapter headings, but these are not outline numbered, since I want the
word 'chapter' to appear before the number. The drop down box at the caption
- include chapter stage does not show this style.
Grrrr........
How have others done it?
Catherine
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You want to include the current chapter into a caption e.g.

Fig. 1 Chapter 1 Text

and Chapter 1 is the heading of that chapter formatted with the heading one
style?

Insert the caption without reference to the chapter then add a Styleref
field to call the heading 1 style into the reference text. This would
produce a combination of fields along the lines of

Fig. { SEQ Figure } { Styleref "Heading 1" } Text

You could save the part - Fig. { SEQ Figure } { Styleref "Heading 1" } as
an autotext or autocorrect entry and insert that instead of the caption then
selecft all and update the fields to show the correct numbers.

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catherine wrote:
Hi, I have just brought together all the chapters of my thesis today.
I am struggling with getting chapter numbers in the caption. i have
used heading 1 for my chapter headings, but these are not outline
numbered, since I want the word 'chapter' to appear before the
number. The drop down box at the caption - include chapter stage does
not show this style.
Grrrr........
How have others done it?
Catherine



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The chapter numbers will need to use outline numbering, but you can
certainly put "Chapter" (or any other text) before the number. In fact, the
last pane in the default List Gallery in Format | Bullets and Numbering |
Outline Numbered has this format already. In order to automatically include
"chapter numbers" in captions, you must use a built-in heading style with
auto numbering for the chapter number. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ChapterNumber.htm.

Graham has suggested another approach, but I believe he may have
misunderstood your intentions.

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"catherine" catherine @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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Hi, I have just brought together all the chapters of my thesis today. I am
struggling with getting chapter numbers in the caption. i have used

heading 1
for my chapter headings, but these are not outline numbered, since I want

the
word 'chapter' to appear before the number. The drop down box at the

caption
- include chapter stage does not show this style.
Grrrr........
How have others done it?
Catherine


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As Suzanne pointed out, an outline number format can include text; the
text will not be included with the caption. In other words, you don't
have to use two separate styles.

However, you will need two styles if you want to exclude the word
"Chapter" from the TOC. Use the heading style for chapter numbering (and
caption numbering) and your custom style for the (unnumbered) heading
text.

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"catherine" wrote in message
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Hi, I have just brought together all the chapters of my thesis today.

I am
struggling with getting chapter numbers in the caption. i have used

heading 1
for my chapter headings, but these are not outline numbered, since I

want the
word 'chapter' to appear before the number. The drop down box at the

caption
- include chapter stage does not show this style.
Grrrr........
How have others done it?
Catherine













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To add to what Stefan has said, note that you don't need to omit numbering
in the TOC just because you don't want "Chapter 1" in the TOC; you can add
numbering to the TOC style. See the relevant section of
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/TOCTips.htm for more.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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As Suzanne pointed out, an outline number format can include text; the
text will not be included with the caption. In other words, you don't
have to use two separate styles.

However, you will need two styles if you want to exclude the word
"Chapter" from the TOC. Use the heading style for chapter numbering (and
caption numbering) and your custom style for the (unnumbered) heading
text.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"catherine" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have just brought together all the chapters of my thesis today.

I am
struggling with getting chapter numbers in the caption. i have used

heading 1
for my chapter headings, but these are not outline numbered, since I

want the
word 'chapter' to appear before the number. The drop down box at the

caption
- include chapter stage does not show this style.
Grrrr........
How have others done it?
Catherine














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