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There's been lots of talk (read: complaints) about the absence of automatic
figure numbering in Word 5.

Actually, after checking out the manual, I realized that using links, you
can come pretty close to auto-numbered figures.

If you link all of your references to a figure number to the number in the
caption, then any changes you make to the caption number will automatically
be reflected throughout your text.

When you make changes, you will still have to renumber the captions yourself,
but *only* the captions.  And if you are working with a very large document,
then you can adopt the common technique of numbering figures by chapter--
for example, Chapter 1's figures get named 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.  This way,
when you need to make a numbering change, it will only affect the figures
within the same chapter.

Sure, it's not auto-numbering; but it does cut down on the work you need to
do to renumber, tremendously--and makes the process pretty quick and easy.


Creating the links is pretty easy, too.  You just copy the number from the
figure caption, and then "Paste Link" the reference.  (Actually, I use
"Paste Special..." so that I can change the format to "Unformatted text"--
they really should have let you change the default fromat for "Paste Link"
with a preference.)


-- 
J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
(I like to put 'greeny' here, 
but my d*mn system wants a 
*real* name!)                        "What's the difference between an orange?"