You have to use the built-in Heading styles in order to be able to use their 'magic' properties (described at Why use Word's built-in heading styles?).

Numbering the headings in the body of the document and the Appendixes Referring to captions for figures, tables etc (eg 'see Figure A2.3, below') Referring to headings (eg 'see Chapter 3, above')Ĥ. This page shows you how to do numbering for headings, figures, references to figures and page numbers in a document that contains several 'Chapters' (or 'Parts' or 'Sections') followed by one or more Appendixes.Ģ. But it doesn't all work well in an Appendix. The built-in Heading styles have all kinds of 'magic' properties: they can be used to number Figures or Tables, refer to those Figures or Tables, build tables of contents, tables of figures and so on. But they don't cope well with Appendixes. Word's built-in heading styles (Heading 1, Heading 2 and so on) are terrific for numbering headings in your document. Only then can you create a cross-reference to these captions in the text.

Use Heading 6 to 9 styles for the Appendix.Ĭreate a new label (Figure_Apx) to number captions for figures in your Appendix.

Use Heading 1 to 5 styles for the main body of the document. Use the built-in heading styles to number headings and figures in an Appendix