Hi,

is there a way to automatically align table of figures in word. It he first part of the picture is inserted table of figures, but i would like to get an alignment show in second part. I have 100+ figures and would not like to copy them manually in a 3 column table.

I do not believe so. AFAIK the page number trails the content of what is pointed to. In other words, you can not break the string.

very very very very very very very very very very very very very very [break] page #
very very very loooooooooooong picture name

is not possible....I am pretty sure. ALL of the text is inserted, THEN the page number. I certainly would be interested if someone else knows how to split the content. It would probably be best to simply rename the long file to something more practical. I am no fan of hugely long names.

See the attachments. Check out the paragraph alignment and tab settings for the 'Table of Figures' Style. The second one does the same for the Table of Contents.

Attached Files

	Figures.docx (23.6 KB, 468 views)
	TOC & TOF.docx (24.3 KB, 32 views)

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That is great, but did you manually insert tab between 'Figure 1:' and picture name?

For the caption, yes, but that's not necessary for the Table of Figures to work. I made the tab in the Table of Figures is part of the Style definition. Ideally, you'd change the caption Style too, to have an appropriately-positioned tab-stop to go with it. That tab is only needed to make both the Figures and the Table of Figures look professional, with a consistent space between the Caption & title in the Figures and for the wrapping alignment in the Table of Figures.

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Wow Paul, learn something every day.

Clearly I am doing something wrong. I set up everything like u did, but it's not working for me.
Can someone take a quick look?

Attached Files

test.docx (26.3 KB, 92 views)

It looks okay when I open the file and appears you followed Paul's instructions. You do have the Table Of Figures style adjusted with a (first) Tab setting at 1.18" and, with that setting, your l-o-n-g title does wrap around to that tab setting.

Am I missing something?

This is not ok, because now the text is overlapping page numbers (see circle). I want to break my text at that red line and leave page numbers where they are.

In the file @macropod posted this works, but i am not sure what I missed.

Based on your above graphic (with the red line/circle), your attachment displays as I indicated earlier...just as Paul instructed. I don't know why it is not showing the same on your unit.

Are you sure both systems are working in Print Layout view?

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I checked again and they are.

I suggest you try repairing the Office installation on whichever system isn't working properly (via Programs & Features > Microsoft Office > Change in the Windows Control Panel).

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Hey. I also have troubles creating table of figures and align left and right. If I open file from macropod (figures.docx) I can see the alignment, but if I create new document and do this steps, it is not working well. I have the same result as jazz43 show in his picture (the number aligment on right is the same as text, even if I set right indent and right tab.... like it is in macropod document.
I use office 2013.

I also have question how if can I use/create 2 differet table of figure styles (one for tables and other for figures). I'd like to create different indents for eah of this TOF/TOT (table of figures/table of tabels)

Without seeing your document, I cannot comment on what the TOC issue might be. Can you attach a document to a post with some representative data, including Headings and the TOC (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.

As for the Table of Figures (TOF), that uses a Table of Figures Style, so it's quite independent of the TOC Styles. If you use two such tables, though, they can't have different Table of Figures Styles. What you could do instead is to assign ordinary Heading Styles that aren't otherwise used to either the tables or the Figures, then use a TOC that references only those heading levels. The TOC Styles for those levels can then be formatted differently.

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