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The next section shows how to update a list of tables or figures. In case of Word 2007 or later version, you can open the dialog box as follows: Home tab > Paragraph group, click the arrow next to the bottom-right icon in the.

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Pro Tip: The Web Preview section shows how your list will look if you convert your Word file to a web page.

(Optional Step) Select additional options concerning page numbers and the tab leaders, which are the dots, dashes, or lines that appear before the page numbers.įigure 6.

Ensure that Include label and number is checked if you want the label (i.e., Figure or Table) and the number to be included in the list.

(There is no option for listing figures and tables together.)

Select Figure or Table from the Caption label menu.

(The From Template option is based on the styles established in your current template.)

Select a visual style from the Formats menu in the Table of Figures dialog box.

Select Insert Table of Figures from the Captions group.

Select the References tab in the ribbon.

Insert your cursor where you want to place your list.

Remember that these steps will only work if you used Word’s caption tool to number your tables or figures before creating the list. Just my 2 cents! Hope it helps.How to Create a List of Tables or Figures 75 points, which wasn't too big and ugly, but made the borders look more solid. I also set that one table that was copied (different than copy/pasting data from within table cells), to border width of. When I recreated these tables and typed in directly rather than copy/pasting data, much of the border problems ceased to subsist. This did result in many border issues when we had copied the content of a top header row, into the cells of a secondary header row to make one row (in an effort to pass accessibility, which likes one header row, one header column!). I did this because I realize that when you copy and paste in MS docs, it copies much formatting in the background which the user is not intending to paste.

As I had many tables that were similar, I did this once, and then used the upper left corner selection icon, when hovering over that part of the table, to copy the entire thing and then manually make content adjustments. What I did do to help some of the border inconsistencies go away leaving only the most minute, barely noticeable issues on the onscreen viewed PDF, was to recreate the tables fresh and type the content back in myself. Text that has been styled with a Heading style will be included in the TOC as if it is a normal section heading. Occasionally I run in to an issue with Microsoft Word where I insert a TOC but find it includes unwanted headings from the front page of the document. The two strings I followed for assistance/suggestions:Īs it is really a presentation/screen problem which I'm assuming Adobe cannot control and does not know how to address so they stay quiet hoping people figure out a work-around, or realize it's not an *actual* problem (PDF and Word Doc I have print out just fine), merely visual. How to Hide Text from Microsoft Word Table of Contents.

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Any many of the people were Windows users. I thought it was maybe a Macintosh issue, but when I looked up the problem, I noticed MANY posts about this-one in particular noting that the problem has existed since 2004 (I'm sure before, but maybe he's referencing it being an issue noted on the forum). So I'd be glad to know if this works as well on your side, Yet I can't explain what exact circumstances / settings lead to these borders appearing while none are selected.

Apply these borders on your cell (or set of cells)Īdmittedly quite counterintuitive, this method proved to do the job.

Use the color white (or any color which is your background's) as border color.

To make unwanted lines (borders?) disappear on a specific cell, you can try what follows: It looks like setting no borders at all on a specific cell can sometimes do more "harm". I copied a working heading to a non-working page and it did not work.

On a page that is working properly, I can add multiple headings and they all work. Some headings (1, 2 or 3) are missing in my table of contents.

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So I think there's little to do with Acrobat and the PDF format there, and the border/padding settings are indeed a possibility.īesides, I'd like to add a strange behavior I observed regarding borders, and I hope my experience will be of help to you guys. Some headings or pages missing from table of contents. You can frequently observe such issues with borders appearing with no apparent reason just sticking to MS Word's interface, without ever exporting to PDF. Without entering a rant against Adobe, I agree this ought to be solved in Word only, therefore acknowledging Luke's approach.