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How to hide caption numbers ?
Hello everyone,
I have to work with a template containing non-TOC headings, which I finally want to be listed in the TOC. Therefore I introduced captions in front of them. In the TOC I do not want to see the caption labels and numbers, so I use the "\a" switch and that works nicely. In the text (i.e. at the position of the caption) I can get rid of the caption label (using the appropriate check box in the "Insert caption" window), but I cannot figure out how to "hide" the caption number. What I have done for the moment is to set the caption number's font to size 1 pt and white colour, so it's nearly "invisible". I guess there's a more elegant solution to my problem, but I cannot find it in the community archive... Thanks in advance |
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Back to basics - if your headings use styles - any styles - you can easily
include them at the right levels in the TOC. Insert an ordinary table of contents, and click Options in the Table of Contents dialog. That will let you associate styles with TOC levels. Alternatives are to use paragraph outline levels (not outline numbering - it's a setting in the Paragraph dialog) or to use TC fields, but I strongly recommend using styles if you can. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Thommy" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, I have to work with a template containing non-TOC headings, which I finally want to be listed in the TOC. Therefore I introduced captions in front of them. In the TOC I do not want to see the caption labels and numbers, so I use the "\a" switch and that works nicely. In the text (i.e. at the position of the caption) I can get rid of the caption label (using the appropriate check box in the "Insert caption" window), but I cannot figure out how to "hide" the caption number. What I have done for the moment is to set the caption number's font to size 1 pt and white colour, so it's nearly "invisible". I guess there's a more elegant solution to my problem, but I cannot find it in the community archive... Thanks in advance |
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@MA,
associating (= hyperlinking) styles with TOC levels might indeed be an option. However, I would really prefer to work with captions. The reason for this is: I might possibly have to fuse the document I work on with other Word-documents, which also contain both (true) non-TOC headings and their own TOCs (referring to heading styles only)... Therefore I am a little bit worried that I might end up with a big mess if I follow your suggestion... Caption and caption lables, in contrast, have the advantage of being unambigously and individually defined, including in their TOC. Thanks anyway "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Back to basics - if your headings use styles - any styles - you can easily include them at the right levels in the TOC. Insert an ordinary table of contents, and click Options in the Table of Contents dialog. That will let you associate styles with TOC levels. Alternatives are to use paragraph outline levels (not outline numbering - it's a setting in the Paragraph dialog) or to use TC fields, but I strongly recommend using styles if you can. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Thommy" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, I have to work with a template containing non-TOC headings, which I finally want to be listed in the TOC. Therefore I introduced captions in front of them. In the TOC I do not want to see the caption labels and numbers, so I use the "\a" switch and that works nicely. In the text (i.e. at the position of the caption) I can get rid of the caption label (using the appropriate check box in the "Insert caption" window), but I cannot figure out how to "hide" the caption number. What I have done for the moment is to set the caption number's font to size 1 pt and white colour, so it's nearly "invisible". I guess there's a more elegant solution to my problem, but I cannot find it in the community archive... Thanks in advance |
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Why not use TC fields instead of skewing captions like this? TC fields are
individually created and placed and are designed to bring elements into the TOC when you can't use a style. Actually, you know what? Caption is just a style plus an SEQ field. You are building your TOC based on styles anyhow, so whatever you are worrying about happening is just as likely to happen using Captions. (The Label adds an extra layer of functionality, but Word still uses styles at the base). You can delete all the SEQ fields, though. Test this ON A COPY. Toggle Field Codes to showing. I think ^19 SEQ will find all SEQ fields and Replace with nothing will delete them. Trickier if you used SEQ fields elsewhere in the doc. And no, associating doesn't equal hyperlinking, just by the way. Not equivalent at all. On 8/2/05 6:20 AM, "Thommy" wrote: @MA, associating (= hyperlinking) styles with TOC levels might indeed be an option. However, I would really prefer to work with captions. The reason for this is: I might possibly have to fuse the document I work on with other Word-documents, which also contain both (true) non-TOC headings and their own TOCs (referring to heading styles only)... Therefore I am a little bit worried that I might end up with a big mess if I follow your suggestion... Caption and caption lables, in contrast, have the advantage of being unambigously and individually defined, including in their TOC. Thanks anyway "Margaret Aldis" wrote: Back to basics - if your headings use styles - any styles - you can easily include them at the right levels in the TOC. Insert an ordinary table of contents, and click Options in the Table of Contents dialog. That will let you associate styles with TOC levels. Alternatives are to use paragraph outline levels (not outline numbering - it's a setting in the Paragraph dialog) or to use TC fields, but I strongly recommend using styles if you can. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Thommy" wrote in message ... Hello everyone, I have to work with a template containing non-TOC headings, which I finally want to be listed in the TOC. Therefore I introduced captions in front of them. In the TOC I do not want to see the caption labels and numbers, so I use the "\a" switch and that works nicely. In the text (i.e. at the position of the caption) I can get rid of the caption label (using the appropriate check box in the "Insert caption" window), but I cannot figure out how to "hide" the caption number. What I have done for the moment is to set the caption number's font to size 1 pt and white colour, so it's nearly "invisible". I guess there's a more elegant solution to my problem, but I cannot find it in the community archive... Thanks in advance |
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I was really willing to try to find a solution using TC fields: it works for
creating the TOC, but I'm incapable of "toggling" back from field codes to field results (only brackets are grey, not the space between them). So, I have no idea what the field results may look like in the definitive document... Am I stupid or just tired??? "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Why not use TC fields instead of skewing captions like this? TC fields are individually created and placed and are designed to bring elements into the TOC when you can't use a style. |
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The toggle for field codes (Alt+F9) doesn't apply to TC and XE fields, which
are formatted as Hidden text. You have to use the Show/Hide ΒΆ button instead (and if this doesn't work, make sure that Word hasn't "helpfully" checked "Hidden text" on the View tab of Tools | Options). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Thommy" wrote in message news I was really willing to try to find a solution using TC fields: it works for creating the TOC, but I'm incapable of "toggling" back from field codes to field results (only brackets are grey, not the space between them). So, I have no idea what the field results may look like in the definitive document... Am I stupid or just tired??? "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: Why not use TC fields instead of skewing captions like this? TC fields are individually created and placed and are designed to bring elements into the TOC when you can't use a style. |
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