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I need a sentence to appear directly after a figure number and caption on the
same line, a so-called "action caption," i.e., Figure 3-1. Very Large Machine. (caption) This very large machine works very well for companies of all sizes in all types of environmental conditions. (action caption) However, when I try this, the whole sentence becomes part of the caption and even gets copied into the TOC. Is there a way to add a sentence after the caption so it appears on the page, but remains separate from the caption? |
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Well, I guess this problem isn't of sufficient interest to merit any kind of
response from the MS Word experts out there. I find this interesting, because there must be thousands of people like myself who need to create this type of caption. Interestingly, I have a book called the Microsoft Word 2000 Bible, which uses similar types of captions for its figures, but doesn't tell you how to create them. Go figure. Perhaps there's a real simple explanation that I'm missing, but I don't think so...In fact, a Google search on this revealed that someone actually had to develop a macro to get Word to perform this action. Not surprisingly, it was a proposal professional: See article titled "Formatting Action Captions" http://www.shipleylimited.com/BidDoctor2.htm Unfortunately, even after running the macro, the entire action caption still appears in the TOC, which I really dont like. The only way around this that I can determine is to manually delete the €śaction€ť portion of the listing in the TOC prior to publication, which is a pain, but it works--not unlike so many other things in MS Word. So, for whats it worth, Im talking to myself here just in case another proposal person searches the key words €śaction caption€ť looking for some resolution to this problem. Anyway, thanks for help. Hey, no problem. |
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Since you didn't quote your original post, I'm not sure what you were
looking for, but perhaps you can get some ideas from http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Well, I guess this problem isn't of sufficient interest to merit any kind of response from the MS Word experts out there. I find this interesting, because there must be thousands of people like myself who need to create this type of caption. Interestingly, I have a book called the Microsoft Word 2000 Bible, which uses similar types of captions for its figures, but doesn't tell you how to create them. Go figure. Perhaps there's a real simple explanation that I'm missing, but I don't think so...In fact, a Google search on this revealed that someone actually had to develop a macro to get Word to perform this action. Not surprisingly, it was a proposal professional: See article titled "Formatting Action Captions" http://www.shipleylimited.com/BidDoctor2.htm Unfortunately, even after running the macro, the entire action caption still appears in the TOC, which I really dont like. The only way around this that I can determine is to manually delete the €śaction€ť portion of the listing in the TOC prior to publication, which is a pain, but it works--not unlike so many other things in MS Word. So, for whats it worth, Im talking to myself here just in case another proposal person searches the key words €śaction caption€ť looking for some resolution to this problem. Anyway, thanks for help. Hey, no problem. |
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Hi, Suzanne. Thanks for responding. The orginial post is included below,
sorry I didn't quote it--thought you could see it when viewing the thread on the discussion board. In any event, the article you provided is very interesting and contains some good information for what it addresses. However, I think it will take considerable tinkering to determine if it can work on captions and then work out how they subsequently appear in the TOC. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of time right now. When I do get time to experiment, at least I'll have something to start with. Thanks again for your help. Original post: I need a sentence to appear directly after a figure number and caption on the same line, a so-called "action caption," i.e., Figure 3-1. Very Large Machine. (caption) This very large machine works very well for companies of all sizes in all types of environmental conditions. (action caption) However, when I try this, the whole sentence becomes part of the caption and even gets copied into the TOC. Is there a way to add a sentence after the caption so it appears on the page, but remains separate from the caption? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Since you didn't quote your original post, I'm not sure what you were looking for, but perhaps you can get some ideas from http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Well, I guess this problem isn't of sufficient interest to merit any kind of response from the MS Word experts out there. I find this interesting, because there must be thousands of people like myself who need to create this type of caption. Interestingly, I have a book called the Microsoft Word 2000 Bible, which uses similar types of captions for its figures, but doesn't tell you how to create them. Go figure. Perhaps there's a real simple explanation that I'm missing, but I don't think so...In fact, a Google search on this revealed that someone actually had to develop a macro to get Word to perform this action. Not surprisingly, it was a proposal professional: See article titled "Formatting Action Captions" http://www.shipleylimited.com/BidDoctor2.htm Unfortunately, even after running the macro, the entire action caption still appears in the TOC, which I really dont like. The only way around this that I can determine is to manually delete the €śaction€ť portion of the listing in the TOC prior to publication, which is a pain, but it works--not unlike so many other things in MS Word. So, for whats it worth, Im talking to myself here just in case another proposal person searches the key words €śaction caption€ť looking for some resolution to this problem. Anyway, thanks for help. Hey, no problem. |
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That's pretty much what I imagined you were trying to do. The secret is to
insert as the caption (in Caption style) only the part you want to appear in the Table of Figures. Then type the rest as a separate paragraph in a different style with the same formatting. Then select the paragraph mark at the end of the caption and format it as Hidden. You can accomplish the same thing in recent versions of Word using a Style Separator. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne. Thanks for responding. The orginial post is included below, sorry I didn't quote it--thought you could see it when viewing the thread on the discussion board. In any event, the article you provided is very interesting and contains some good information for what it addresses. However, I think it will take considerable tinkering to determine if it can work on captions and then work out how they subsequently appear in the TOC. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of time right now. When I do get time to experiment, at least I'll have something to start with. Thanks again for your help. Original post: I need a sentence to appear directly after a figure number and caption on the same line, a so-called "action caption," i.e., Figure 3-1. Very Large Machine. (caption) This very large machine works very well for companies of all sizes in all types of environmental conditions. (action caption) However, when I try this, the whole sentence becomes part of the caption and even gets copied into the TOC. Is there a way to add a sentence after the caption so it appears on the page, but remains separate from the caption? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Since you didn't quote your original post, I'm not sure what you were looking for, but perhaps you can get some ideas from http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Well, I guess this problem isn't of sufficient interest to merit any kind of response from the MS Word experts out there. I find this interesting, because there must be thousands of people like myself who need to create this type of caption. Interestingly, I have a book called the Microsoft Word 2000 Bible, which uses similar types of captions for its figures, but doesn't tell you how to create them. Go figure. Perhaps there's a real simple explanation that I'm missing, but I don't think so...In fact, a Google search on this revealed that someone actually had to develop a macro to get Word to perform this action. Not surprisingly, it was a proposal professional: See article titled "Formatting Action Captions" http://www.shipleylimited.com/BidDoctor2.htm Unfortunately, even after running the macro, the entire action caption still appears in the TOC, which I really dont like. The only way around this that I can determine is to manually delete the €śaction€ť portion of the listing in the TOC prior to publication, which is a pain, but it works--not unlike so many other things in MS Word. So, for whats it worth, Im talking to myself here just in case another proposal person searches the key words €śaction caption€ť looking for some resolution to this problem. Anyway, thanks for help. Hey, no problem. |
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Suzanne,
The Style Separator trick works perfectly! I just insert the Style Separator between the caption and the action caption. It separates the two and does not carry the whole thing into the TOC, just the figure number and the caption. Exactly what I needed and less trouble than the macro. Thanks so much, Proposal Manager "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's pretty much what I imagined you were trying to do. The secret is to insert as the caption (in Caption style) only the part you want to appear in the Table of Figures. Then type the rest as a separate paragraph in a different style with the same formatting. Then select the paragraph mark at the end of the caption and format it as Hidden. You can accomplish the same thing in recent versions of Word using a Style Separator. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne. Thanks for responding. The orginial post is included below, sorry I didn't quote it--thought you could see it when viewing the thread on the discussion board. In any event, the article you provided is very interesting and contains some good information for what it addresses. However, I think it will take considerable tinkering to determine if it can work on captions and then work out how they subsequently appear in the TOC. Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of time right now. When I do get time to experiment, at least I'll have something to start with. Thanks again for your help. Original post: I need a sentence to appear directly after a figure number and caption on the same line, a so-called "action caption," i.e., Figure 3-1. Very Large Machine. (caption) This very large machine works very well for companies of all sizes in all types of environmental conditions. (action caption) However, when I try this, the whole sentence becomes part of the caption and even gets copied into the TOC. Is there a way to add a sentence after the caption so it appears on the page, but remains separate from the caption? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Since you didn't quote your original post, I'm not sure what you were looking for, but perhaps you can get some ideas from http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/RunInSidehead.htm. -- 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. "Proposal Manager" wrote in message ... Well, I guess this problem isn't of sufficient interest to merit any kind of response from the MS Word experts out there. I find this interesting, because there must be thousands of people like myself who need to create this type of caption. Interestingly, I have a book called the Microsoft Word 2000 Bible, which uses similar types of captions for its figures, but doesn't tell you how to create them. Go figure. Perhaps there's a real simple explanation that I'm missing, but I don't think so...In fact, a Google search on this revealed that someone actually had to develop a macro to get Word to perform this action. Not surprisingly, it was a proposal professional: See article titled "Formatting Action Captions" http://www.shipleylimited.com/BidDoctor2.htm Unfortunately, even after running the macro, the entire action caption still appears in the TOC, which I really dont like. The only way around this that I can determine is to manually delete the €śaction€ť portion of the listing in the TOC prior to publication, which is a pain, but it works--not unlike so many other things in MS Word. So, for whats it worth, Im talking to myself here just in case another proposal person searches the key words €śaction caption€ť looking for some resolution to this problem. Anyway, thanks for help. Hey, no problem. |
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