new label, not working on a different computer

[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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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.

 

[Jan Kratochvil]

Where are stored that captions?

If I am using template and copy that template - are stored that captions
inside the template?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

They are stored in Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jan Kratochvil]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[Jan Kratochvil]

Oh, great, it really works.
Thank you, so I have restored my captions to make the cross references and
so on.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Great. I'm glad that worked.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org