Re: Word 2004 Chapter numbers in Captions
- From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:52:21 +1100
Hi Claudio:
To include the Chapter number, the style you choose for the chapter MUST
have a number, and Word must generate that number. If you type the number,
it's ordinary text and Word can't tell that it's there.
So the short answer is: Use Heading 1 for your Chapter Title, and put a
number on it...
Hint: Don't include the chapter number in your captions. It only annoys
the reader and makes your examples difficult to find :-) Number them all
"1" to "last" throughout the whole book: then if a reader is looking at
Example 34 they know that Example 37 is two examples further on.
Chapter-based numbering is a technique that comes to us from the Pleistocene
Era before word processors and electronic typesetters when books were made
up by hand with frames of lead type :-)
Cheers
On 30/11/06 10:20 PM, in article
cldpmpl-A724F2.21500830112006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Claudio Pompili"
<cldpmpl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm writing a thesis with Parts I - III, Chapters (Chapter title style)
and Headings 1 to n.
The Chapter title style has no automatic numbering.
I would like to have my Examples caption have the chapter number and the
incremental number of examples within that chapter eg 4-3 (ie Chapter 3,
example 3, numbered incrementally within the chapter), as per Oxford
Guide to Style.
When I go to the menus Insert>Caption and selection options Numbering, I
check the "Include chapter number" and the pull down menu for "Chapter
starts with style" allows choice of Heading 1 to 9 only. No other style
is available.
Is there a way to do this that's obvious but I've missed?
I'm wracking my brains and the only solution that I can see is something
like this:
? Create a Chapter title style that has automatic number based on Header
1 style, eg "4 Chapter" only problem is that I would like "Chapter 4"
not other way around. Any suggestions how to move the auto number to the
end?
? Move all of my header 1 to n in each chapter down a level so that the
new Chapter title/header 1 is the topmost level in each chapter; and
? then my caption set to Header 1 should be able to pick up the chapter
number and increment
any ideas appreciated,
cheers
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