Needless to say, I don't have the exact answer, but I do know (as far as I can tell) Word is not set up to handle figures and tables separately without creating an offensive caption, which is not acceptable by APA standards. Hi Melanie, I feel your pain because I am going through the same debacle and Google searched the cure for my woes.
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Use this technique, get back to me and I will explain how to do this using If (shock, horror!) your figure caption numbering is such that you cannot The reason you use Format>Style to add the numbers instead of justĬlicking the Numbering button is that if the numbering is part of the styleįor the generated table, it will stick when the table updates. None missing, so the effect is the same, and it's deliciously simple to do Hopefully (!) the numbers in your figure captions start at "1" and there are The sequence numbers returned from the captions. The reason you would not admit to doing this is because the numbers thatĪppear are the numbers of the paragraphs in the List of Tables, they are not TIME, uncheck the box that says "Include Label and Number".ģ) Now, click in one of the entries in the table and go to Format>Style.Ĥ) Choose the Table of Figures style and then drop down the Format list andĥ) Choose the "1." sample of numbering, and OK your way out. It's not the sort of thing you wouldĪdmit to doing, except at a Publisher's Anonymous meeting, but it works.Ģ) Use Insert>Index and Tables>Table of Figures to put it back in, but THIS
"Label" from your captions, but only in the List of Figures. To generate the format you want, it is simply necessary to remove the "Inside the Box, Melanie, 2010" is the Caption Text. In the example above, "Figure" is the label, "1" is the Figure Number, and The Caption Text � The text of the caption. The "Chapter Number" � Not used in APA style Still, if that's what they want, of course, Word can do that too. Omitting the Caption Label from the Table of Figures would be a local You said you wanted "APA Style" :-)Īs far as I can tell without paying for the entire APA Publication guide and > If you need more information, please ask. > "Figure" in italics, the italics will be passed into the LOF. So if you directly format your caption to have the word
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And you're right: the Generator copies DIRECT formatting, but not > So if the word "Figure" does not appear in the caption, it won't appear in > replicates anything in the style "Caption" into the List of Figures. > The generator looks for a "SEQ" field containing the label "Figure" and then > Word's list of Figures is actually generated by the Table of Contents > halfway uniform (something about tab stops maybe?).
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> I wouldn't even know how to go about setting up a manual list that would look > "Word is too stupid to actually follow APA rules, even though it says it does > for APA formatting, and the master's committee won't accept an excuse of, > figures without using the TOC Generator, because it's totally screwing me up
> Okay, then I guess I'm wondering if it's possible to generate a list of Either is a seriousĪmount of work, and simply not worth it, for what you are doing. Yes, Word does have two other ways you could generate a List of Figures:Įither using TC fields, or using cross-references. When Word claims to offer "APA Style" I suspect it's speaking in relation toĬitations, which it will also do in APA Style. You can use Format>Style to change that one to The formatting of your List of Figures is now controlled entirely by your I thought a candidate for a Master's Degree would understand that � maybeĤ) Now select the TEXT of each caption and hit Command + i to turn it That you want in normal text as non-italic. Is in Italic, then use Direct Formatting to format the part of the caption That was my suggestion to you: that you arrange it so that the Caption style Of Figures, but not the STYLE formatting? Remember I said that Word copies the DIRECT formatting into the List Word is perfectly capable of producing any format of List of Figures you I don't know why used to say that so often to ME! :-) My Grandmother always used to say "A bad workman blames his
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