Modifying captions in Table of Figures

[CoffeeNut]

Hi everyone,


I have a question regarding a Table of Figures I'm making for a scientific paper I'm writing. I'm captioning the figures (which are graphs), and the captions need to be very descriptive (about 5-7 lines). However, I don't want the entries within my Table of Figures to be that long. Right now, each entry in my Table of Figures has my complete caption description. I'd rather my Table of Figures just say:
Figure 1: Egg laying patterns of female Map turtles.
And then when you go to the actual graph, it has the above Figure 1 caption plus the rest of my description.

Does anyone know how to modify a caption so only part of it shows up in the Table of Figures?
Please note I am using Office 2011 for Mac and OSX