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Stefan Blom · 05-06-2014, 11:31 AM

Assuming that Text Wrapping for the pictures is not "In line with text," Word creates a text box for each caption. Caption numbering will depend on the relative positions of text box anchors in the document.

Click the ¶ button on the Home tab to display nonprinting marks. Select a caption and note where the anchor symbol displays. Drag the anchor so that it is in a separate paragraph from other anchors and in the logical order. Finally, update caption fields, for example by switching to Print Preview and back, you can use Ctrl+F2 followed by ESC.