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Step 2: Update the caption numbering for figures

Click Close to close the Caption dialog box.

Doing this automatically updates ALL table caption numbers in the document.

Click OK to close the Caption Numbering dialog box.

It’s unlikely you’ll need to change the Format or the Style, so leave those as they are.

Select the Include Chapter Numbering check box.

Click Numbering to open the Caption Numbering dialog box.

Go to the References tab and click Insert Caption to open the Caption dialog box.

Place your cursor in front of ANY automated caption number for ANY table.

Step 1: Update the caption numbering for tables There are three main steps in this procedure - updating the table and figure caption numbering, then updating any cross-references that refer to these tables (including any List of Tables of List of Figures you’ve inserted).

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This post does not describe how to set that up (instead see the links in this post: ). This set of steps ONLY works if you use automated outline numbering for your heading styles.

Ultimately, you want to help your readers find the information they want as quickly as possible.

By changing the numbering sequence to include the chapter numbers, your readers will have guideposts to aid their search - if they are in Section 5, they will know that Table 3.2 is back in Section 3 and is the second table in that section.

You want to do this because your document is long and readers can’t easily find the tables/figures they want as numbers like Table 34 are meaningless unless you find the table captions before/after ‘Table 34’.

Table 3.2 for the second table in chapter 3).

You want to convert the caption number sequences from a single number sequence to a separate sequence in each chapter/section (e.g.

You have table and figure captions in this document that are numbered in two long sequences - one for tables, one for figures (e.g.

You have a Word document that uses outline numbering for each chapter/section heading (e.g.