I think the best -- or maybe only -- non-macro solution is provided at this blog:
http://insight.trueinsight.za.com/archives/276 and http://insight.trueinsight.za.com/archives/426
in brief, he recommends using StyleRef
fields to specify what style (Heading X
vs. Appendix
, in my case) to use when applying table or figure captions. Unfortunately, that fails when both "Figures" and "Tables" are in the appendix. His final conclusion is to do what I did in the first place.