MS Word – Add Chapter number to Table and Figure Captions

Once more, I found a useful tip and I'm documenting it here so I can easily find it again. This time, the tip is about adding chapter numbers to Table and Figure captions in MS Word.

Normally, a Caption is entered sequentially, like this:

Chapter 1

Table 1
Table 2
Figure 1
Table 3

Chapter 2

Figure 2
Table 4
Table 5
Figure 3

But, when using an engineering-style document with numbered chapters, sometimes you need a more formal method of numbering things:

1.0 Chapter Header

Table 1-1
Table 1-2
Figure 1-1
Table 1-3

2.0 Chapter

Figure 2-1
Table 2-1
Table 2-2
Figure 2-2

The info on how to do this is in this short-and-simple video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrcAmAQWSK0