For some reason, I couldn’t get the cross references of sections work properly. And I couldn’t get a section number assigned to the subsubsections. Here is what I did:

At the end of file exp1.tex from your sample files, add these sections:

%% Li’s modification starts here.

The rest of this chapter proceeds as follows. Section \ref{sec:design} describes the experiment design, while section~\ref{subsec:req} details the requirements and section~\ref{subsubsec:setup} describes the experiment setup. Section ~\ref{sec:method} describes my methods, while section~\ref{subsec:procedures} gives details of the procedures and section~\ref{subsubsec:firstSteps} goes over the first steps.

\section{Experiment design}
\label{sec:design}
I describe my first experiment in this section.
\subsection{Experiment requirements}
\label{subsec:req}
Good design is expected.
\subsubsection{Experiment setup}
\label{subsubsec:setup}
The sound lab is needed.
\section{Method}
\label{sec:method}
I describe my methods in this section
\subsection{Procedures}
\label{subsec:procedures}
The following procedures were followed.
\subsubsection{First steps}
\label{subsubsec:firstSteps}
We carried out the experiment with the undergrads.

At the end of the file intro.tex, add the these lines:

%% Li’s modification starts here
The rest of the dissertation proceeds as follows. Chapter~\ref{ch:firstExp} gives description of my first experiment. Section~\label{sec:design} of Chapter~\ref{ch:firstExp} covers the my first experiment.

After adding these lines in the two files, I run
PDFLatex example.tex
a couple of times. I couldn’t get the cross references to the subsections and the subsubsections do not have numbering either.

I was wondering if you have a quick solution.

Thanks

now I can just use the latex command to compile the document.

The zip file works fine for me. Sorry you are having problems with it. I haven’t heard about anyone else having trouble with it.

I am surprised that MikTeX doesn’t have the caption package. Is it an up-to-date version? You can find just about any package you want on ctan.org. The caption package is not necessary though. You could always get rid of that. It is just a handy way of setting some options for table and figure captions.

The .cls file should work with any standard LaTeX installation on any OS on which LaTeX runs. I do recommend using pdflatex as opposed to using regular latex though — see my other post on pdflatex

I remembered you suggested me visit your blog for the appropriate style sheet for UM dissertation. Here I am! I just downloaded the .zip file but I couldn’t unzip the file ‘umthesis.zip’ using the unzip command or using Window auto unzip untility. Please let me know if there is any trick for unzipping it.

To get around that, I downloaded the sample files listed in the directory. When I was just compiling them on my laptop where MikTex is installed, it seems that MikTex is able to download many of the required missing packages but it couldn’t retrieve the one for caption.sty, maybe I should try to download this package from somewhere else?

Or any suggestion on how I can best use your style sheet, meaning what the ideal OS and environment I should use?

Thanks