Hi bmonteen
A typical sequence of events that can cause this problem is the following:
1. Create a caption.
2. Elsewhere, create a reference to that caption. To do that, Word inserts a
hidden bookmark around the whole of the caption paragraph.
3. Now, go back to insert a picture above the caption. You might go to the
beginning of the caption paragraph and press Enter to create a spare
paragraph. You then insert the picture there. But ... that's within the
hidden bookmark. So when Word updates the caption, it brings along the
picture (or whatever else is now within the hidden bookmark). And Word is
updaing the captions whenever you do print preview or print (which is why
deleting the picture from the cross-reference isn't working for you).
Solution:
You'll have to delete all your current cross-references and re-create them
(sorry!).
In the future, if you have a caption, and you want to create a paragraph
above it, go to the end of the *previous* paragraph and press Enter there.
Then, the new paragraph (into which you might insert the picture) won't get
caught up in the hidden bookmark.
Regrettably, there's no way to see these hidden bookmarks, so you can't
avoid them by eye. Your sequence of events might not be exactly as shown
above. But you can easily reproduce the steps above to create the error,
just to see how it works.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
bmonteen said:
I have a document with many figures, some are bitmaps and others are
embeded powerpoint slides. I have used the insert caption option on all the
figures. I then used cross-refrences to these figures in the text, i.e.
"see Figure 15" were "Figure 15" is a cross-refrence. I am not sure why, but
now I have a problem when I insert a new cross-refrence the associated
figure gets inserted too. I can delete the extra figure from the
cross-refrence, but when I print or print preview it just comes back.
