Equation Captions start over at 1

[Bernie]

I have been writing a document for several months now, it
is about 70 pages long and has figures and equations. I
have used captions for both, and recently when I wanted to
add some equations near the end of a chapter, the equation
caption (I defined a new caption "( " for my equations so
they can be numbered like in a textbook) has reset itself
back to X.1 (X being the chapter number). I tried updating
the entire document, and also putting equation captions in
the middle of the document...but it just doesn't recognize
the ones I previously put in.
Any ideas? Or do I just have to go back and redo all the
captions?
thanks

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Bernie

I think the solution here is to examine the field codes for your captions. Click on one that works, press Shift-F9 and examine the
code. It should look something like

{ STYLEREF 1 \s }-{SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1}

Now, do the same for one of the problem captions. Can you see any difference? If not, post back, and copy and paste the code within
the brackets into your reply and we'll see what might be the problem.

If you're mucking around trying to make these work, remember that you can't type the {} braces by hand. You must use ctrl-F9 and
type between the braces that Word inserts for you. Once you've typed the field, use F9 to update it, or ctrl-a F9 to update all
fields in the document.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia