Replace all reference types and cross-references?

[luckycharms]

Hello folks,

I need to change all my "Figure" captions and cross-references to "Figure 1-" captions and cross-references. Thus, Figure 1 will become Figure 1 - 1, etc. I have created a new reference type, "Figure 1 -", but now comes the painful work of re-captioning all my figures and changing all the cross-references to it.

I'm wondering - is there a way to automatically change all "Figure" captions to "Figure 1 -" captions, and to do the same to the cross-references?

thanks!

[macropod]

If your revised numbering is achieved via the 'Include Chapter number' option, it would be easy enough to use a macro to apply that to all captions. Other than that, a Find/Replace operation might be able to be used on the captions (attach a sample document to a post if you'd like me to see if I can work something out along those lines). The changes don't need to be applied to the cross-references as updating them will automatically apply the new format.

[luckycharms]

I've come up against this problem again, so I'm bumping the thread. See the linked document as an example. In the example, I would like to automatically change "Table 2 - 1" to just "Table 1" (i.e. remove the "2 - " from both the caption and cross reference, leaving them linked). Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[macropod]

Rather than providing links to dropbox, which seems to have some accessibility issues, it would be helpful if you attached your document to a post. You can do that via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab.

[luckycharms]

ok - post edited. thanks! i was looking for the attachment, but didn't find it. thanks for the instructions.

[macropod]

It appears the '2-' that's used in the caption is not part of the Chapter referencing supported by Word's caption feature. Accordingly, if you delete that, then update the cross-references (e.g. Ctrl-A, F9), all should be fixed.