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Old 08-13-2020, 05:08 PM
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I'm working on a word document where I have several subsections and tables, figures.

The following link: Office-Prob — ImgBB shows first, the window where I configure the title (it's in spanish, Titulo = Title, Tabla = Table).

The title it's configuring itself on the windows is "Tabla 1.4.2.2-1" so it's saying it's in the section 1.4.2.2 and is table number 1 of that section, but I actually have the table in section 2.1, so it should actually be "Tabla 2.1-1".

Anyways, accepting on the "Tabla 1.4.2.2-1" produces the second image seen on the link, where it shows "Tabla 0-1" under my table. I've investigated everywhere, I have my titles correctly referenced as titles 1, 2 or 3, etc and this happens after a certain point in my word document, I mean, until a certain point of the document, figures and tables have been with the correct title, but then, all images and tables are getting the wrong title.

Any help is appreciated, workin on office 365.
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The jargon for this is Caption.
Insert a Caption
Complex Documents - Microsoft Word Intermediate User's Guide - Table of Contents - Table of Authorities - Cross-References
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The links Charles has provided do give you a lot of information about captions and their numbering options, however I think there is finer details that you need to understand and read enough of those links to be sure it was covered there.

The section in the first link related to 'Chapter Numbering for Captions' includes the basics but your request looks like you want the captions to vary in heading depth according to last heading above the figure. This is a big deal because using the Insert Caption dialog to customise the heading level to include for one caption has a tendency to reset all the other captions in the document. Plus it is very fiddly to set the right levels every time you want a caption. If you want to vary the heading level resets you will need to learn how to edit the field codes so you can craft each caption accordingly. Specifically, the \s switch is what you need to focus in on and how that works.

In my opinion, it is far easier to decide that every caption's numbering relates to a higher heading level eg Heading 1 and stay with that level right through the document irrespective of the lower level headings.

If you are seeing Tabla 0-1, you need to troubleshoot it by revealing the field code for the 0 result and see what heading level it is pointing at. Then scroll back through the document and find the nearest preceding example of that style - it won't have a number so you need to reset the formatting on that paragraph so it has an autonumber again. Then you can refresh the field to see that number appear again.
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Charles, I appreciate those guides, there were a couple of things that helped but the problem persists.

Guessed, I couldn't fully understand, I'm studying your suggestions to try to apply them but meanwhile I found the issue I believe:

I have titles up to "title 4", this means, until a 4th subsection in the first chapter, but when I go into the second chapter where I have a table in a 2nd subsection (example: 2.1), is where the problem begins. I fixed it by changing that table from chapter 2.1 in caption numbering window. The following image as reference: ChaptNum — ImgBB where in the option "Empezar con el estilo" = "Chapter starts with the style" is where I change the value to "Title 2". After doing this, my table from chapter 2.1 has its title fixed but, this also updates all the tables before that to the same configuration of "Chapter starts with the style: Title 2", so my table from chapter 1, which had a 4th title, now only show up to title 2. I read that I had to maybe do some configuration on SEQ, which I admit, don't understand much and this is what it says on the titles:

{ STYLEREF 4 \s}-{ SEQ Tabla \* ARABIC \s 4}

What I conclude is that all the titles from all chapters are linked in configuration, so when I have title 4 selected from chapter one, since in my table from chapter 2.1 there's no title 4, it shows that "Tabla 0-1" as some sort of error.

Any help is appreciated.
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Posting another reply since I think I could solve it:

{ STYLEREF 4 \s}-{ SEQ Tabla \* ARABIC \s 4}

The 4's there indicate the level of title, in this case, 4th title. What I did was change it manually on each table to the needed level of title, be it 2 or 4 and then update the field by selecting the title, right click and update.

Could there be a better way of doing this or a correct way?
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I'm glad you figured out how to get what you need.

You can set it in the dialog for creating the caption.
There is no simple way to just change them, though, other than manually or through the dialog.
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