Show “only number” in cross-reference in Word 2007 document?

Post date: Jan 20, 2021 9:7:16 AM

Case study: Your publisher requests to move all figures and tables to other files and at these places say "Insert Figure..." or "Insert Table".

The problem is when referring them in the text, they will appear all "Insert figure..." or "Insert table..", not showing only the number of the figures or tables.

Problem-solving:

Select "Insert figure.." in the text, display menu Home, open Font, and check Hidden text.

Voila, there are only numbers of figures or tables. Then you can type any text you want before the number

Trick:

Use Macro with those steps above, assign keyboard shortcuts

Use Finding with the keyword to jump to exactly the text you want to run the macro

Answer here already:

https://superuser.com/questions/474503/word-2010-cross-reference-number-with-chapter-without-label?noredirect=1&lq=1