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.
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"Chip H" wrote in message
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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.
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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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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Chip H" Chip wrote in message
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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.