Captions in Word

Well in this post I'm going to follow the lead of the the September AU Quarterly Newsletter, AEC Tech Tips Section and leave Civil 3D out.

If you have a large work document, such as a report, you may want to reference a table, figure or appendix in the document. If you use a the numbering tool or regular text you'll have to manually update the numbers if they change. Word provides a way to do automatically update, so if you add a figure any references in the

First you need to add the captions for the Table. To do this go to Insert on the menu bar and choose Reference > Caption.

To reference the Table Caption go to the menu bar and choose Insert > Reference > Cross-Reference

You can also add above/below to the reference to indicate where in the document the table or other reference is located at.