Reply To: Numbering Figures According to Sections

Skemicle’s idea is great, but I want to add some extra tips as well:

First, to clarify Skemicle’s approach:

1. Edit the ‘Section’ paragraph style. Under Bullets and Numbering, from the List Type dropdown menu select Numbers (duh!…).
2. From the List: dropdown menu select New List. A ‘New List’ dialog box appears. Give the new list a name (such as “figure_list”). Make sure both checkboxes are activated. hit OK
3. In the Number: textbox, you’ll probably see the default string (^#.^t). Delete the last few characters so you’re only left with ^#. This will delete the period and the tab from after the number.
4. From the Character Style: dropdown menu select New Character Style. A new ‘Character Style’ dialog box appears. Give it a name (such as ‘hidden_numbers’). Define only two settings in the character style: Make the point size 0.1 and the character color to [None]. Hit OK. This effectively ‘hides’ the numbers from the section headers so it doesn’t actually show up in the text. Save the paragraph style.
5. Now edit the Bullets and Numbering in the ‘Figure’ paragraph style. From the List Type: dropdown menu select the ‘figure_list’ list that you created earlier. Then make sure that the Level: is set to 2.

That’s it! It’s basically Skemicle’s approach, but clarified. Plus, a cool trick on how to ‘hide’ numbers when you don’t want then to actually show up in the text.