Without seeing the document, it's hard to know. At a guess, I'd say that wherever the bookmark for Figure 42 was originally inserted, someone's inserted a paragraph break before the word 'Figure'. Consequently, the cross-reference now picks up that paragraph break too.

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Macropod,
Thanks for your post. You were correct, my Figure Cross References got contaminated from FIGURE Captions that were pulling in graphics and tables and then duplicating this data all over the manual where the matching Figure Cross Reference was present. This was a nightmare, and I had no option but to strip out the entire data out of the file and rebuild the file with new Figure Captions and Figure Cross References.

As I mentioned earlier, I inherited this file from someone else who no longer is with the company. The maintenance procedures are all written with numbered steps, followed by a JPEG engineering graphic placed onto a NORMAL row, followed by a TABLE LEGEND (placed onto a NORMAL row), followed by a FIGURE caption (with appropriate Figure Caption style applied).

I never want WORD to torture me again with this problem. Therefore, I hope you can answer some of my questions:

What is the correct way to integrate into a WORD file a JPEG file, TABLE, and a FIGURE Caption to avoid the disaster I experienced?

What can I apply onto the beginning of a FIGURE caption that will function as a barrier and prevent a FIGURE caption from snatching graphics and tables and then spreading it all over FIGURE Cross References throughout the document?

In WORD 2003, I remember placing graphics in what was called a Drawing Canvas, and I never experienced this type of problem. Does WORD 2007 support using a Drawing Canvas?


Any opinion welcome. Thanks.