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Tables of Figues
Try again the way I suggested. In a normal text paragraph, use Insert |
Reference | Caption. After you've created the caption, select it and Insert Frame. As I suggested, this works best if both caption and figure are inline and you insert them into the same frame. -- 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. "Chip H" wrote in message ... Thanks, again. I tried to insert the caption within the newly created frame - and that didnt' work. I then tried to sinply write the caption in - calling it a figure, once, and then a caption after that didn't work. I really am beginning to think they just made this too complicated. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You "typed" the caption? The Table of Figures won't find captions unless they have been inserted using Insert | Caption. -- 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. "Chip H" wrote in message ... 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). -- 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. "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. |
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