Hi,

I am all too familiar with the problem you describe. I think the solution has always been to un-do any manual page break (Page Layout tab, breaks menu) that is immediately before the figure/table I am cross-refersencing, and replace it with a less-manual type of page break (right-click. select Paragraph in the resulting menu, click Page Break Before button). Or perhaps I've even had to find some way to undo *those* styles of page breaks, too, in order to solve the page break problem. Then I regenerate the cross references by doing the usual Select-All (Control+A) F9 and hopefully there's no longer the strange behavior.

I think what's happening is that when you insert a cross reference to a figure/table that has a page break in front of that figure/table, Word is "grabbing" the page break into its information for the *cross reference* to that figure/table, as if you want that page break to insert too, which of course you don't!

I think those page breaks are also the culprit for the strange large sections of unwanted cross-reference text magically inserting into my beautiful document, but I'm not sure. Word is the most exasperating program I've ever worked with. Adobe Framemaker is swell -- very predictable, and you don't have to learn quirky behaviors like, get this one -- "Oh, since you highlighted the whole numbered para with the Emphasis character style (except the numbers), I'm going to italicize even the NUMBER to the left of the text you highlighted, even though you didn't/can't highlight the number itself." You end up in that case having to resort to highlighting only a *subportion* of the words in that para, and then repeat with yet the remaining subportion (except for the number, which does not highlight, of course).