Reply To: Caption Numbering Bug ..

I believe this happens because InDesign assigns automatic numbering in a certain order: by date. Meaning that the latest text frame created gets assigned the latest number. So for example, when you created the last text frame for “No. 11” that frame was the ‘youngest’ text frame to be created so it got assigned the latest number, in this case ’11’.

But when you anchor it into an old text frame that is ‘living’ on the page for a longer period of time, the anchored text frame inherits the age attribute from the ‘parent’ text frame to which it is anchored to, In this case ‘4’. Because the parent text frame was probably created right after the text box with the “No. 3” was created.

This is only a theory that I thought of and might be wrong, but it makes sense to me.