atw: Re: MS Word? Building a table using 'hidden' text?


Hi Sean (O'S)

Don't use hidden text or it won't show up.

Rather make a Figure Heading style that you can call in the Word
TOC but make the text colour white.  That way it won't show up on the
printed page and will only* show on screen when selected but will still
generate effective TOC entries.

* Tools > Options >
General (tab) [X] Blue background, white text also makes this stuff
visible whilst editing, if you can cope with the Word 5.1 for DOS look and
feel.  (Never use during a hangover!)

That will do the
trick.

Cheers,

Michael Granat
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au



> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I hope
you can help. 
> 
> I am working with a large MS word
document and want to auto-build a 'table 
> of figures' (using
Insert) but the figure captions are already shown as 
> part of
the image graphics. 
> 
> I want to have the figure
captions appear in the 'table of figures', so I 
> assume that I
will have to include some text (or ?) - that specifies the 
>
caption content for the table of figures - immediately before each figure.

> But I do not want this extra text (or ?) to be visible in the
document as 
> read, nor do I want it to 'magically' appear if the
word document is 
> processed for publishing etc. 
> 
> Any suggestions? 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Sean
O'Sullivan.

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