Adding a table of figures element

If you have many graphics or charts in your document, you can create a table that contains the captions of those elements to ease navigation.

Before you begin

Add captions to your figures:

Procedure

  1. Perform one of the following steps:
    • In the Palette view, select Table of Figures icon Table Of Figures and drag it into the template content editor.
    • In the template content editor, right-click the place to insert an element, and select Insert > Table of Figures icon Table Of Figures.
    • In the Outline view, right-click Content, and then select Insert > Table of Figures icon Table Of Figures.
  2. Select the table of figures element.
  3. Modify the table of figures properties in the Properties view.
  4. Click File > Save As or click the Save icon to save your changes.

Creating a table of figures without sequential numbering in Microsoft Word output

When you create a table of figures with figure captions and generate Microsoft Word output, the result is a list of figure captions with sequential numbering before each one. Instead, you can structure your template using Text elements rather than figure captions to create captions that do not have sequential numbering with them.

About this task

Complete one of these tasks to avoid sequential numbering in Microsoft Word tables of figures like this example:
Table of figures output in Microsoft Word with sequential numbering

Procedure

  1. Create a caption style:
    1. In the Outline view, right-click Styles and click Insert > New Style. The New Style Wizard opens and you can click Next.
    2. Enter a Style name. Example: TOFCaptionStyle
    3. Select the style properties. Example: Expand text > font, select font size, and click Style icon. Click Next.
    4. Select the values for the style properties you selected. Example: Expand text > font, select font size, and in the property value column, enter 10. Click Next.
    5. Review the summary of your selections and click Finish.
  2. Add a Table of figures element icon Table of figures element to the template and add a script for the caption style:
    1. In the Palette view, select Table of Figures icon Table Of Figures and drag it into the template content editor.
    2. Select the table of figures element.
    3. In the Properties view, select the Specific tab.
    4. For the TOC code property, click the ellipses and enter \h \z \t "style_name" \c Example: \h \z \t "TOFCaptionStyle" \c
  3. Add Image element icon Image elements to the template and create the figure captions for each image:
    1. In the Palette view, select the Image element icon Image element and drag it into the template content editor.
    2. Select the figure graphics to use in each image element.
    3. After each image element, add a Text element icon Text element.
    4. Select the text element.
    5. In the Properties view, select the Content tab.
    6. For the Content property, enter the caption text for the image. Example: Test Figure #1
    7. Select the General tab.
    8. For the Style name property, enter the name of style you created in step 1. Example: TOFCaptionStyle
    9. Repeat steps 3.d to 3.h to edit the properties for each text element you added.
  4. Click File > Save As or click the Save icon to save your changes.

Results

Table of figures output in Microsoft Word without sequential numbering

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