Thanks for the response. Let me do some caption numbering investigation.

I've solved the the single letter reference/table/fig character string by adding a bookmark. In the phase: "References (a) and (b)"; the "(b)" is now a bookmark mapped to that Reference so when I hit F9 the (b) bookmark is updated, if that makes sense. I can't solve the plural on the "Reference" label. I wish I could just add a 's' to that field. Thanks