I’m running Linux Mint 21, with LibreOffice 7.3.7.2. This has only just started happening. I have a whole series of Captioned graphs in a document labelled as Figure 1: Text, Figure 2: Text , etc. Using Figure 7: text as an example Menu>Insert>Field>More Fields>Figure opens up my list of Figures. I click on Figure 7: text and click “Insert” and “Close” and what gets inserted into the main body of the text alongside Figure is “3”. If I choose Figure 3 from the list the number 1 is inserted into the text. If I choose Figure 29 from the list - the number 10 gets put into the text. There seems to be no logic to the cross-references being generated. As I said this used to work OK with this document - so what has caused this to go wrong?
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Improve your description. Are you trying to insert a new caption (directly without using the wizard) or to insert a cross-reference to an existing figure?
In the latter case, take care to open Cross-references tab (which you get to directly from Insert>Cross-reference). A cross-reference can display many properties of the referenced location. See *Refer using list. By default, this is the page number. To insert the figure number, you must select *explicitly Number.
Thank you for the suggestion - I’ve edited my post to show OS and LibreOffice versions being used. I’m trying to insert a cross-reference in the text to a captioned image. This has always worked with Menu>Insert>Field>more Fields - which brings up the “Fields” box - which in the “Cross-references” Tab under “Selection” are my list of captioned images with the “Type” on the left hand side being “Figure” and “Refer using:” set to page number (unstyled). And yes - the “refer using” option has been changed - if I use either the “Caption text” or “Numbering” I get the correct cross-reference link. Thank you very much - rather than just say “solved it” I’ve included all the above in case other people run into this problem