Word 2003 display only a portion of caption text in table of figures

[MHughes2]

i am putting together a document that has come figures with mighty
long captions... i do not want all of the caption text in these
figures to go into the table of figures... the only way i have found
to do this is to use a line break in the middle of the caption... but
that just makes the caption look messed up. is there any way to break
up a caption so not all of it goes into in the table of figures? I
have tried highlighting a potion of the caption and changing the style
to "normal" but that doesn't do anything... the full caption still
shows up int the table of figures... please help!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you update the TOF after changing the style? Did you insert a Style
Separator?

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Words into Type
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[MHughes2]

Yes i did update the TOF but it did not change. I am not sure what
you mean by a "style separator"

 

[MHughes2]

Suzanne I Figured it out! great suggestion for the style separator!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285059

 

[MHughes2]

Now I wonder if it is possible to eliminate sections of a caption....
ie a typical caption is " floor-to-floor vibration ratios (markers
without lines) superimposed on predicted floor-to-floor vibration
ratios output by the mathematical model with optimization (markers
with lines)"

in the TOF i would want to want to remove the "(markers without
lines)" and "(markers with lines)" any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For that sort of situation, I think you're going to be reduced to using TC
fields to dictate the exact text to be included.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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