Changing the caption style to normal   

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am going to need to create a table of figures that will have the figure number and the first sentence of the caption. To do this, I would like to be able to have the figure number and the first sentence of the text in caption format. Then, I should be able to change the text following the first sentence to normal so that it will not show up in any lists. When I highlight the text I want to change and go to change the style to normal, Word automatically changes it back to caption. Is there any way around this?

date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:21 -0700   author:   unknown

Re: Changing the caption style to normal   

Yes there is.

Word has five types of style.  The default Caption style is of type
"Paragraph" and can apply only to a whole paragraph.

Normal is also a paragraph style and can apply only to a whole paragraph.

You need to create a style of type "Character" that can be used to set the
the caption part of the caption into a different format.  A Character style
can be applied over the top of a Paragraph style, and if it is, it overrides
the paragraph style.

Now:  The caption that is returned by the List of Figures generator is drawn
from the content of the Caption style.  You will have to use the "\t" switch
in the TOC field to specify a different style (the Character style that you
created) otherwise you will get the entire caption paragraph.

Hope this helps

On 18/07/08 7:58 AM, in article 59b547ff.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"asweaver@officeformac.com"  wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: Intel
> 
> I am going to need to create a table of figures that will have the figure
> number and the first sentence of the caption. To do this, I would like to be
> able to have the figure number and the first sentence of the text in caption
> format. Then, I should be able to change the text following the first sentence
> to normal so that it will not show up in any lists. When I highlight the text
> I want to change and go to change the style to normal, Word automatically
> changes it back to caption. Is there any way around this?

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date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:33:21 +0930   author:   John McGhie