I also want to change Figure to Fig. throughout my long (already written) document and I'm somewhat stunned that this is not easy to do. As someone mentioned, formatting the labels can be done globally but not so with editing the labels? So, do I have this right: My 'best' option is to remove the label "Figure" from each reference so that the fields contain just the numbers and then I have to go back and manually type in "Fig." everywhere!? After 14 versions of Word, this is what I'm left with?