Table of Figures

[Roberto "Roby" S. Greco]

Hi!

(I don't know if this is the right newsgroup, I apologize if it isn't,
but I didn't see any other... and microsoft.public.word.wordbasic seems
not to work!)

I need a table of figures in my doc.
What I did:
1. import picture with Copy&Paste
- for every picture (as the help says)
2. click on the picture
3. Insert->Caption (Label=Figure, Postion=Below...)->OK
4. in the box that appears I write the "caption" of the pictue, just
after the number the automatically appears)
-
in a paragraph (say: C. Table of Figures) at the end of the doc:
5. click where I want the Table of Figures
6. Insert->Index&Tables->TableOfFigures
(CaptionLabel=Figure, Formats=Distinctive, ShowPageNumbers=ON,
RightAlignPageNumbers=ON, IncludeLabelAndNUmber=ON, TabLeader=___
7. click on Options
8. Style=ON, Style="Caption", TableEntryFields=ON, TableIdentifier=F
9. click on OK and once again OK
What I get:
"Error! No table of figures entries found."

I read and read and read the help, and I'm quite sure that I'm doing
what it's said there. In the TroubleShooter doesn't appear any tip for
that kind of error.

Thanks, Grazie, Danke, Kiitos, Merci, Gracias, Arigato Gozaimasu...

Roby

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a "feature" of Word that, as I understand it, has not been corrected
in Word 2000. Word by default puts captions in text boxes despite the fact
that someone at MS MUST have known that text boxes are in the drawing layer
and thus invisible to the engines that create indexes and tables of figures
or even to field updating via F9.

Solutions abound; the right one for you depends on your specific figure
arrangement. Many users have reported that the most satisfactory arrangement
is to put figure and caption together in a frame (which is in the text layer
and therefore can be "seen"), but if your figure is inserted inline (i.e.,
in its own text paragraph rather than floating over text--though it won't be
if you've pasted it in), it will suffice to format that paragraph as "Keep
with next" and have the caption in a text paragraph following (with "Keep
lines together" if it's long enough to require that).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft Word MVP
Words into Type
Fairhope, AL USA

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