Figure captions sequencing, help needed!!!

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I had a document formatted perfectly, it has a list of figures, they were all
in sequence.
I had to add a new figure, so I copied the previous one complete with the
caption.
After generating the list of figures I had two figures with the same number.
I assumed copying the caption was a no-no, so I deleted the caption I had
copied and inserted a new one from scratch. Once again, I generated the list
of figures, now I have a gap in my sequence.
What a pain! How on earth do I fix this?

David
 
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I had a document formatted perfectly, it has a list of figures, they were all
in sequence.
I had to add a new figure, so I copied the previous one complete with the
caption.
After generating the list of figures I had two figures with the same number.
I assumed copying the caption was a no-no, so I deleted the caption I had
copied and inserted a new one from scratch. Once again, I generated the list
of figures, now I have a gap in my sequence.
What a pain! How on earth do I fix this?
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Well, after copying you probably needed to Ctrl+A, then F9 to force the SEQ
fields that maintain the numbering to update.

When you insert a caption using the Word menus, Word will do this automatically.
If you now have a gap, something may have been broken, or there's a SEQ field
hidden somewhere that's making it look like a number has been skipped.

Are these captions in floating text boxes, or are they "in line with the text"?
Which versino of Word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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