This post does not describe how to set that up (instead see the links in this post: ). This set of steps ONLY works if you use automated outline numbering for your heading styles. By changing the numbering sequence to include the chapter numbers, your readers will have guideposts to aid their search - if they are in Section 5, they will know that Table 3.2 is back in Section 3 and is the second table in that section.
Table 3.2 for the second table in chapter 3). You want to convert the caption number sequences from a single number sequence to a separate sequence in each chapter/section (e.g.
