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112 Automatically updating figure references for books

112 Automatically updating figure references for books - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

112 Automatically updating figure references for books

I've been writing and laying out books for over 20 years, and one of the great challenges over all that time has been figure numbering. That is, how to deal with the fact that sometimes you need to add or remove an illustration right in the middle of a chapter, and that can mess up all the figuring numbering after that page. Fortunately, InDesign makes figure numbering a breeze, if you just follow these few basic steps. In this document here, I have a figure and a caption underneath it. I want to add a figure number to that caption, so I'm going to double-click on it with the Selection tool, which switches to the Type tool. And I'll zoom in, so I can see it better with the Cmd+2 or Ctrl+2 on Windows. Now, I'm going to edit the paragraph styles. You have to use paragraph styles in order for this to work, but if you're laying out things like books, you better be using paragraph styles or else you're in all kinds of trouble. So, I'm going to open the Paragraph Styles panel, and you can…

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