Basically, yes. Indeed, if you toggle the field code display 'on', you can use Find/Replace, where:
Find = ARABIC \s 1
Replace = ARABIC


(just in case there's other '\s 1' content in your document (personally, I'd use F/R to delete all of ' \* ARABIC \s 1 ', as it's not needed).

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Paul Edstein
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Thanks -- one more question: when I do that, all the captions get replaced with Error! Reference not found!, or whatever that warning message says. Is there a way to do this that avoids having to relabel everything?