hi suzanne,

thanks for the tip. i tried it on a copy of the document. my steps we

1. go to the actual figure's caption
2. toggle the SEQ fields (Alt+F9)
3. add \r1 switch at the end of fields but within the curly bracket i.e.}
4. Edit - Select All - F9 (i.e. update fields)

these seems to work well i.e. where i have inserted the "\r1" switch (in
this case within the caption of what was previously figure 8) and updating
the fields, the caption on the actual figure now read Figure 1 and the
in-text citation of what was previously referre to as Figure 8 had become
Figure 1. so if this is what i wanted, and please correct me if i am wrong,
then for each figure and table at the beginning of the chapter, i should
insert the "\r1" switch, shouldn't i?

only thing is what i wanted (if possible at all to be achieved, short of
doing it manually) was to do:

the first figure (or table) of chapter 1 to be captioned Figure 1.1 or Table
1.1 respectively while the second figure (or table) of chapter 1 to be
captioned Figure 1.2 or Table 1.2 respectively while those of chapter 2 be
labelled Figure 2.1 (and Table 2.1) and Figure 2.2 (and Table 2.2)
respectively.

thanks for your help and advice again,
jes

ps: i went to the word.mvps.org site searching for ways to do this but could
not locate it but of course i could be not looking at the right place or the
phraseology of the search term was not correct.



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Try it and see what happens. You may need to Alt+F9 to reveal the SEQ fields
in your captions and add an \r 1 switch to restart numbering in each
chapter.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"xppuser" wrote in message
...
hi again,

another question regarding caption and cross-reference if i may.

i have almost completed captioning & cross-referencing the tables and
moving
to figures now. i am just wondering whether it is possible to prefix the
numbering by the section or chapter no. e.g. the first table from Chapter
1
would be labelled Table 1.1 while the first figure in Chapter 1 would be
correspondingly lablelled Figure 1.1, and the first table in Chapter 2
would
be labelled Table 2.1 and likewise for the rest of the tables and figures
in
the remaining chapters.

i have 'chapterized' my document using Heading 1, 2 and 3 (haven't gone
beyond level 3). when i look-up Caption there is an option to include
Chapter
but i am not sure whether it would work the way that i intended rather
than
e.g. for the fifth table but first table in chapter two appearing as Table
2.5 (using MS built-in Captioning) when really what i wanted was Table
2.1.

thanks for advice/help again,
jes

ps: i am not sure about the 'net-etiquette' in this situation where
technically this is a new topic/question but principally it is just a
continuation of the previous topic matter whether i should have
posted/opened
a new thread. would appreciate a small comment about this as well. thanks.