I assume you will say, this looks good, if you never used this before. This updates all the figure number automatically. Instead of searching and replacing all the figure numbers in the text, click 'Edit' -> 'Select All' (or, Ctrl + A), which select the entire document, then, press 'F9'. Notice that, the original figure 1 is now figure 2. It is automatically inserted as figure 1. I inserted another figure named, 'This is the What happens if I want to insert another figure at the very beginning of the document. Now, we have Figure inserted in the text. In the dialog box, select 'Figure' as 'Reference type', then select 'Only labelĪnd number', pick 'Figure 1. Then, we can insert the figure number into the text, as 'Figure 1'. Similarly, I created Figure 2, named 'This is figure two.'. Now, Figure 1 is created, named 'This is figure one.'. Click on 'Insert' -> 'Reference'Ī dialog box should pop up. What about references? I will show you how using 'cross-reference' in MS Word could save you a lot of work.įirst, lets insert a figure in a document. Through the entire paper to fix the figure numbers. Insert/deleate a figure, or even move your figures around, you will need to search Did it even happen to you that, when you write a paper, then you decide to
