WORD CROSS REFERENCE FIGURE NOT LISTED UPDATE

I havenвЂ™t encountered your exact scenario, but IвЂ™ve often transferred big docs (with lots of x-refs) to another template (clean doc, not merging one doc with another existing doc).

WORD CROSS REFERENCE FIGURE NOT LISTED UPDATE

If asked, select the option to Update entire table.

Go to the References tab, Captions group on the ribbon (middle), then click Update Table (#3 in the image below).

Go to the References tab (#1 in the image below), Table of Contents group on the ribbon (far left), then click Update Table (#2 in the image below).

Sometimes these elements update as part of the steps above, but not always. Once youвЂ™ve updated the caption numbering and the x-refs, you may need to update the automated Table of Contents (TOC), List of Tables (LOT), and List of Figures (LOF) too. Sometimes just a single pass will work, but IвЂ™ve had situations where IвЂ™ve needed to do the update a second time, so now I just do it twice anyway.) (Why? Because the first update seems to update the numbering and captions, and the second pass seems to updates the x-refs. YouвЂ™ll see the вЂspinning wheel of deathвЂ™ and possibly вЂNot RespondingвЂ™ in the title bar while Word is updating your doc, so donвЂ™t touch the mouse or keyboard until the cursor turns back to a static arrow.) (This update can take several minutes on a very long or complex doc with lots of x-refs, so be patientвЂ¦.

Right-click on the selection, and select Update Field.

Press Ctrl+A to select the entire document.ItвЂ™s actually very easy to do, so hereвЂ™s how: to reflect any changes you make, such as inserting new tables/figures/sections, or moving existing ones to other places in the document, or deleting some of them. If you have a document with several sections and automated table/figure captions and x-refs to these, you might wonder how you can update these numbers etc. NOTE: You must be using automated caption numbering, WordвЂ™s heading styles (mostly), and automated cross-references (x-refs) for these steps to work.

Word cross reference figure not listed