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table of figures; text for each entry
You can use TC fields to include any text you like in a table of figures.
To insert a TC field, you can use the Mark Table of Contents Entry dialog box (Alt+Shift+O). It's the same dialog box that you use for a table of contents--and, in fact, a table of figures is just a special type of TOC in Word. Alternatively, add the field directly by pressing Ctrl+F9 and then typing the field code (be sure to display hidden text before trying this approach). Note that TC fields are static, that is, if you reorganize document contents so that caption numbering changes, you would have to edit the affected field(s) before updating the table of figures. To work around this you could nest a cross-references within a TC field. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "setting vertical space between lines" osoft.com wrote in message ... Thank you again for that good trick. That works but is not there any way to make this shorter version of the text a bit more different than just cutting at some point of this text? I mean, for instances with indexes, I can place a sentence and an index which refers to that particular sentence while keeping the index entry words quite different to the sentence words pointed by the index entry. Is that possible to do with tables of figures? For example: indexed sentence: Kids like playing videogames Index entry: Computer games loved by children As you can see the indexed sentence and the index entry are completely different. I can do that with indexes, but can I do it with tables of figures? how? Another question, do you know someway to give a format to the table of figures or to an index in which I predefine the paragraph style instead of having to change it every time after updating the changes right into the table of figure or the index? For example, one thing that I would like to predefine would be the space between lines do that word leave one line in between whenever I update the corresponding table of figures or index. Thans in advance "Stefan Blom" wrote: Press Enter to break the caption paragraphs at the appropriate location. Then format the paragraph mark (¶) between the two "parts" of the caption as hidden text, so that it will appear to be in the same paragraph. (If you are creating the table of figure based on styles rather than on captions, you will also have to apply a different style to the paragraph after the hidden paragraph mark. By default, however, Word relies on the caption label when creating tables of figures, so this extra step shouldn't be necessary.) Update the table of figures. To show/hide hidden text as well as other nonprinting marks, you can press Ctrl+Shift+8 (or press the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "setting vertical space between lines" osoft.com wrote in message ... Hello I have word 2002. Would there be any way to make the text of the entries appearing in a table of figures(Insert menu-Reference-Index and tables) shorter than the actual text appearing along the document for each figure? For example, let's say I have a figure under which this message can be read: "Figure 1: this figure represents the speed of the cat vs the speed of the lion in the middle of the forest" But let's say I do not want that this long message appears in the table of figures. Nonetheless, it is appearing like that so far. Is there any way to change a little bit the entry in the table of figures for this message in order to make it shorter? For example, the message in the table of figures would just be: "speed: cat vs lion" The thing is that I knew how to do this with word indexes because with the XE label I can set the text I want for the corresponding index entry. But for this case of tables of figures, I still do not know how to do that. ¿Is not there a XE entry or something like that for the tables of figures? Thanks in advance |
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