how to organize pictures like articles by Zotero?

bekble · February 25, 2016

Hi

I wrote a big document with over 150 pictures and 250 pages,

with Zotero I easy managed over 200 citations,

but now I have to the same with pictures,

In Office 2016 to each picture I used "describe photo"

But I have a problem with references of this photo,

e.g. when I delete picture 130 (Pic. 130) I have to rewrite this numbers in text where I describe this photos

(because 130 is now 129, 131 is now 130,132 is now 131 and so on)

How to make this references kind of "mobile"?

e.g. I write in "Results": "You can see me on the seaside in picture 3(Pic.3), my cat is on picture 4 (Pic.4) and my dog on 5(Pic. 5)"

but than I decide to delete my cat from "results" and I don't want to rewrite but make pic reference update automatically

is it possible?

please help because I'm going crazy with 150 pictures !! :-)

best regards

adamsmith · February 25, 2016

I'm afraid Zotero can't do that. But doesn't Word have built-in figure support that could?

bekble · February 25, 2016

maybe, but I don't know how to find it and use it...

thank you for replay,

again you helped me :-)

best regards

adamsmith · February 25, 2016

it's basically this: http://schwiegers.com/arthur/track_figures.aspx
details vary by Word version, general principal remains the same.

bwiernik · February 25, 2016

Here are instructions for Word 2007 and later:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-captions-in-Word-82fa82a4-f0f3-438f-a422-34bb5cef9c81

You can use the "Insert Caption" feature to automatically number the figures. If you want to refer to a particular figure in the text (e.g., "see Figure 5"), you use the Cross-Reference feature.