Problem in MS Word figure number formatting

Question

I use Microsoft Word 2007 & my figure numbers follow this style "Figure ‎1-3" I want change my style to "Figure ‎1.3"

would you please help me to do that?

Answer 1

Click on any of your figures, right click and select "Insert caption". Click on "Numbering" to view the "Caption Numbering" dialog box. Change the value from "- (hyphen)" to ". (period)" inside the "Use separator" box. Click OK and you're done.