It doesn't appear to be possible. You would need to nest both the prefix and seq field but the Seq field double counts even when one is not visible (so the table numbers double each time. For instance, the following looked promising

Table {If{StyleRef "Heading 6" \p} = below "{StyleRef \s 1 \n \# "0."}" "{StyleRef \s 6 \n}"}{If{StyleRef "Heading 6" \p} = below "{Seq Table \s 1}" "{Seq Table \s 6}"}

Even if you could get it to work, it would require additional constructions to deal with either Heading 1 or 6 not being numbered OR not being present in the document.



I think you are going to need a macro to do your captions and deal with all the variables you have asked for. Such a macro would be possible but the variations make it complex.

Why don't you just setup each of the caption variants you want and save them as quickparts and then insert the relevant one wherever it is needed?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks for your response. Much appreciated.

OK, so it looks like it might be too difficult.

I was trying to avoid the issues that arise when a user moves a captioned object from one part of a document to another, ie a captioned object would be moved from an appendix to a regular section and thus should be referencing Heading 1, not Heading 6 or vice versa.

I have the objects (including the relevant caption) inserted via macro as QuickParts and labelled as Table and Appendix Table to provide the relevant caption numbering. This works well.

Rather than doing an all-in-one approach, is there a simple way then to just eliminate the "." which remains when the numbering of heading 1 is removed.

I need table caption to return "Table 1.1" with a numbered heading 1 style, or "Table 1" with a non numbered heading 1 style. I'm currently getting "Table .1" with a non numbered heading 1 style.

My current field code is "{If {STYLEREF 1\s}<> "Error*"{STYLEREF 1\s}}.{SEQ Table \* ARABIC \s 1}"

Thanks again for your time.