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Shubiao Shubiao is offline
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Default Hiding text in a Table of Figures

Thanks, Stefan.

Would you have a simpler way to do it? I am struggling to follow the TC
field stuff as I haven't learnt how to use it.

In different captions of my figures (or tables), there will be different
sections of words I want to omit in the Table of Figures (in my case, I call
it List of Tables in my report). So, I feel it's different from Author,
Title, and Subtitles.

Can I still use styles to build the Table of Figures in this case?

I am gratful for your help.

Shubiao

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm. In particular, read the
"Customizing table of contents entries" section.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Shubiao" wrote in message
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But how can I hide middle part of the caption in the Table of Figures. For
example:

Figure 1.2: Distance-Time Plot [Jan 17] and More.

I want show:

Figure 1.2: Distance-Time Plot and More.

In the above, [Jan 17] is removed.

Can I do this? Please help.

Many thanks.

Wu

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm

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"Andrew" wrote in message
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Hi there,

I'm wondering how to only display certain parts of a caption's text in
the
Table of Figures.

For example, in the text the caption might read:

"Figure 1.2: Distance-Time Plot [Jan 17]"

However, in the Table of Figures I do not want the part in the square
brackets to appear (Jan 17)

I want the Table of Figures to look like:

"Figure 1.2: Distance-Time Plot................15"

Is there a good way to do this? One possibility is to just delete the
[Jan
17] off the Table of Figures once I know that I'm not going to update
it
anymore, but this doesn't seem like the most elegant solution.

Thanks very much,

Andrew