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Default Tables of Figues

You "typed" the caption? The Table of Figures won't find captions unless
they have been inserted using Insert | Caption.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Chip H" wrote in message
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Thank you very much. I didn't know about using frames instead of the test
box. As you suspected, Word did insert a text box when I inserted a

caption
under one of my photos.

I did as you suggested: I deleted the text box, inserted a frame, and

typed
the caption inside the frame. When I inserted the table of figures, it

gave
me the same error message.

Why on earth did the Word programmers default into something that won't

work??

Considering that I'm marginally computer literate, what do I do next??

Thanks, again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

By default, I believe the TOF looks for { SEQ Figure } fields. You can

also
specify a style (such as Caption). Or you can create a second TOC to

pick up
entries in one or more styles.

The most likely problem, though, is that (a) your figures are wrapped,

and
so (b) your figure captions were inserted (by default--Word's fault) in

text
boxes, and (c) the Table of Figures can't see text in text boxes. You

have
several choices: (a) convert the text boxes to frames (which the TOC can
see), (b) change both figures and captions to In Line With Text, or (c)

if
the figures really need to be wrapped, convert both figure and caption

to
inline, then select both and insert a frame around them (using the

Insert
Frame button on the Forms toolbar).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Chip H" Chip wrote in message
...
After following all the instructions regarding development of

captions,
when
I insert a Table of Figures, I get the following error message: Error!

No
table of figures entries found. I have no idea what I've done wrong.

The
Table of Contents worked as advertised.