Troubleshoot captions

• On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and then click Caption.

You need to turn off the AutoCaption feature. On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and then click Caption. Click AutoCaption, and then clear the check boxes for the items you don't want to be numbered automatically.

Microsoft Word inserts caption numbers as fields. If your caption looks similar to {SEQ TABLE \* ARABIC}, Word is displaying field codes instead of field results.

To see the field results, right-click the field code, and then click Toggle Field Codes on the shortcut menu. (If you want to see the results for every field in the document, press ALT+F9.)

Chapter headings may not be formatted with the correct heading styles. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering, and then click the Outline Numbered tab. Click a numbering format that contains the text "Heading 1," or "Chapter 1," and so on, and then click OK.

Chapter numbers may be turned on in the Caption Numbering dialog box. On the Insert menu, point to Reference, and then click Caption. Click Numbering, and then clear the Include chapter number check box.

To prevent Microsoft Word from adding a label to a caption, select the Exclude label from caption check box in the Caption dialog box.

Caption numbers in the rest of the document might be out of sequence. You should manually update the captions. Select a specific caption or an entire document, right-click the selection, and then click Update Field on the shortcut menu.

Caption numbers might be duplicated or out of sequence. This is because you can anchor only one text box to a specific paragraph.

If necessary, move multiple captions into separate text boxes, move each text box anchor to a separate paragraph, or unlink the text boxes. Then manually update the captions.

Ungroup the caption and the object and then manually update the captions.