Captions for Tables/Figures not auto-numbering appropriately

In Word 2007, I 1am trying to create a list of figures and a list of tables.

In order to do that, I must put captions on my tables on figures.

In order to do that, I believe that I have to create multilevel numbering.

  1. I do not want the numbers to appear in my text next any levels of headings.
  2. When I create multilevel numbering, chapters number themselves inconsistently and inaccurately. (I don't even want to use multilevels to create chapter numbers or numbers next to levels of headings. I just want to use those numbers to add captions to figures and tables. I tried to hide the auto-generated heading text and number, but the hidden text now creates extra indents, and it numbers each chapter inconsistently and inaccurately.)
  3. When I create captions, the captions in chapter two, for example, get labeled Figure 0.<number> because, somehow, that part of the document doe not realize that it should be, say Figure 2.<number>.  Manually creating a label does not allow my table of figures to generate numbers correctly.

Currently, my chapter title is in a self-created style called Chapter Title. All my chapter names are Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. with no other wording.

I have a separate Heading 1 style in each chapter.

Any thoughts on why numbering could be going haywire?

Answer
Answer

If you want the chapter numbers to be included in the table and figure captions, then you should use Heading 1 for the chapter titles. Use Heading 2 for the subheadings in each chapter.

If you didn't have a numbered style at all, you could add numbering (Hidden, with "Follow number with" set to "Nothing") to Heading 1 and use it for the chapter title, but since you're already using Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc., as the chapter titles, then it makes more sense to use Word's built-in numbering for those paragraphs.

Set the "Number style" to 1, 2, 3 and type "Chapter " before the number in the "Number format" box. Set "Follow number with" to "Nothing." If you want the chapter title centered, then center the Heading 1 style, but leave the "Number position" set to Left.

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