Word displays its default caption, Figure 1, in the Caption text box. Then, choose Insert, Refere nce, Caption to display the Caption dialog box, as shown in Figure 20.10. To use Word's Caption feature to streamline captioning, first click where you want a caption to appear. Or, best of all, you can tell Word to automatically insert a caption whenever it sees you inserting something that ought to be captioned. Word has a built-in style, Caption, that's perfectly suited for this purpose. You can insert your figure captions manually, using a style that you won't use for anything except captions.
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So your first step is to get some figure captions into your document and let Word know that they're figures. You can't have a table of figures if you don't have any figure captions to compile into your table.
#HOW TO INSERT A TABLE IN WORD AND ADD SUBTITLE HOW TO#
After you understand captioning, you'll learn how to compile your captions into tables of figures?or any tables you want. The next sections review Word's powerful captioning features.
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For example, it can automatically insert captions for you?and then build your table of figures from the captions it has inserted.
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However, Word contains a few extra tricks that might make your life even easier. You can build tables such as these in much the same way you've just learned how to build tables of contents. For example, you may want a table that compiles all the figures in your document, or all the equations, or, for that matter, all the Word tables. Often, you want other tables in your document besides a table of contents.