Word 2010. I have outlined numbered headings in a template.
Table captions include chapter number (ie Table 1.1, Table 2.1 etc).


Headings in Appendix section use heading style 6 and return appendix character of heading 6 style (ie Table A1, Table B1).
If heading 1 style is changed to no numbering to avoid an error, I've included in the code "{If {STYLEREF 1\s}<> "Error*"{STYLEREF 1\s}}.{SEQ Table \* ARABIC \s 1}"
After a heading 6 style "{SEQ Table \* ARABIC \s 6}".

My question is this, is there a way to combine the code using an If statement or something?? so that it doesn't matter whether the previous heading style is 1 or 6, if the numbered style is present, then Table 1.1 or Table A1 will be returned.
If heading 1 style is unnumbered, then Table 1 will be returned, but still return Table A1 after heading 6 style.

To complicate this further, there is a period "." between the IF STYLEREF field and the SEQ field for captions linked to heading 1 style. I'd like this to be eliminated also. The user needs to have the choice of numbering or not, without messing up caption numbering and cross-referencing. Can this be done?

I'd appreciate ANY help. Thank you.

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.

Did you notice how I included the "." in the heading number formatting?
{StyleRef \s 1 \n \# "0."}

Try incorporating that into your nested formula.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia