new label, not working on a different computer

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Younes

Dear All,

I had created a new label "Fig" on my computer at school and labeled all my
figures with that.
Yesterday, when I opened the file on my laptop at home, the label "Fig" did
not appear in the list of "captions" and I could not use it for
"cross-reference". So, I closed the file and re-opened it, and it worked. But
now it doesn't work anymore.

I am really desperate and would really appreciate if someone could help me.

Thanks,
Younes
 
Caption labels are stored locally, not in the document, so they're not
portable. You'll need to recreate the caption label on your home computer.
 
Where are stored that captions?

If I am using template and copy that template - are stored that captions
inside the template?
 
Thank you Suzanne.

One more question.
If I lost the origin Normal.dot and I have in my doc file a lot of not
working places with my label, how can I than replace it quickly with a new
working label?

Making it more than hundred times manually is so boring.

Can I use find and replace somehow?

Example:

Not woriking caption: Abb.
I need to have the same working caption in my file with the same name Abb.
 
I take it that just recreating the caption label doesn't repair the existing
captions? A caption itself is nothing more than a SEQ field. I have never
been able to understand what Word does differently when you create a caption
label through the Caption dialog, but if you create a caption label "Abb,"
then it will be offered as a choice in the Cross-reference dialog, whereas
if you create a { SEQ Abb } field (which looks identical to the one
generated by the Caption dialog), it will not. Even so, I would think that
the SEQ fields created using this caption would be intact, so recreating the
caption should restore their functionality.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Oh, great, it really works.
Thank you, so I have restored my captions to make the cross references and
so on.
 

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