Hi Charles,

I'd thought about doing it that way, too, but then you can't cross-reference both the caption's caption text and its reference via Insert|Cross-reference.

Although you have the separator after the 'descriptive text', it would have to be immediately after the reference # for the OP's purposes, though I'm not sure whether it's the text or the reference the OP wants to exclude. Obviously, though, you'd only apply the caption Style to whichever part is to be included. Also, FWIW, Style separators aren't supported on Macs.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]