How to fix error '0' in Figure and Table captions of Microsoft Word

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[HueNguyen-rwsi]

In my case, my heading is CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION. So I set heading 1 for "Introduction" also which turned out the root cause making the 0 error. I suggest you set chapter name e.g. intro, research method... to normal wording and just remain "Chapter 1"....as heading 1. Hopefully this helps!

[rudigerbaudendistel]

Thanks, helped me a lot although it was slightly simpler to resolve.
Sometimes the formatting of the headings is transferred accidentally to any other paragraphs (possibly direct behind the captions). This causes the same or a similar effect even if you strictly used the styles of Headings as defined. Solving this is also easy: find all paragraphs that are defined a heading without number (e.g. by searching the styles and highlight all, or by looking in the navigation pane where these paragraphs are listed as blank) and then format them of a standard non heading format. Then you can update the captions as shown in this video. final tip: use "updated all fields" in the references tab to update all captions in one go.

[tarunpatidar]

Not working for me.
Still same problem

[mastersourabh]

how to caption subfigures and cross reference them?

[ilhamdzulfianannas]

thanks a lot man. you save ma day. nice

[IKNOWEVERYTHING]

I found that in my case, i accident addeded empty heading slot after 1st heading i erased it then problem solved.

[mimilaser]

I still have this error even after do what you say 😭

[gregory]

how about chapter number is roman, but the caption is numerical. EX: Chapter II, the image caption is 2.1

[jamalshah]

You didn't explain how you correct it

[MbulisiSibanda]

Thank you ...this video was very helful