Change Chapter # Format in Caption

[Bruce C Jenkins]

My document is required to use Roman numerals for the chapter headings,
e.g., "IV. Chapter Title." My other heading styles (paragraph numbering)
must be 4.1, 4.2, and so on. I've been able to do this. The problem is
that my captions are labeled "Figure IV-x: <caption label>," when I really
need "Figure 4-x...."

Is there any way around this? I've tried to set up a hidden style at the
beginning of my chapter, but I haven't been able to get it to work right. I
was hoping to change the formatting for the STYLEREF tag but haven't come
across any leads?

Any suggestions on the best approach?

TIA.

Bruce

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Look in Word's Help under "fields, formatting field results." I believe what
you need is the *\ Arabic switch.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA

Bruce C Jenkins <bcje...@acm.org> wrote in message
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[Bruce C Jenkins]

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> Look in Word's Help under "fields, formatting field results." I believe what
> you need is the *\ Arabic switch.

Suzanne, Thanks for the reply. The switch you describe works for the sequence
portion of the caption, but it doesn't seem to affect the section/chapter
portion of my label. I'll keep playing with it. Thanks.... Bruce

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Bruce:

I think we mis-understood you.

The caption label simply "copies" the chapter number.

If you "Include chapter number" in caption labels, Word copies the TEXT of
the chapter number. Word doesn't actually know that it is a number: so it
can't reformat it to a different number base for you.

To have Arabic numbers in captions you must have arabic numbers on your
chapters.

If you are determined enough, you "can" fudge it ...

1) You need to put a named SEQ field in each Chapter heading with a hidden
result. {SEQ ChapNum \h}.

2) You then put the same-named SEQ field in the captions with a "closest"
switch:

{SEQ ChapNum \* ARABIC \c }--{SEQ Table \* ARABIC \s 1 }

Update all your fields and voila!

Cheers.

In microsoft.public.word.numbering on Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:02:58 -0500, Bruce
C Jenkins <bcje...@acm.org> wrote:

Please post follow-up questions to the newsgroup so that all may follow the thread.

John McGhie <jo...@mcghie-information.com.au>
Consultant Technical Writer
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Sydney, Australia (GMT +10 hrs) +61 (04) 1209 1410

[Bruce C Jenkins]

John,

Thanks for the reply. I probably didn't do a very good job of asking my question. I
fiddled a bit with your suggestion, but I think I'm overlooking something. I'm in a
rush, so I cheated and made my "Heading 1" hidden with Arabic numbering. I then used
the Title style for my Roman numbered heading. My TOC headings will then be based on
Title, Heading 2, Heading 3, and so on.

When I get this project out of the way, I'll look more closely at your instructions.
Thanks for taking the time.

Bruce