Yes, we are all using track changes so authors can view our edits. I do know that track changes causes weirdness like marking cross-references as deleted and then re-inserting them -- and sometimes numbered paragraphs are treated the same way. I'm not aware of other oddities.

No, I haven't tried inserting captions with autotext, although I'm working on a template for our users that has caption autotext entries among others. I'll try that approach with the latest document I had trouble with and will post my results sometime next week.

As for the missing cross-references in the dialog box, from what you say we'll just have to live with that and alert authors when we've manuallly types a table of figures entry.

Thank you so much for your response.