I have a table of figures (TOF) in a long document, and I would like to have all of the figures in the TOF to have a concise description. However, in the figure caption itself in the body of the document, I want to have the concise figure caption, followed by some elaboration that I would not want in the TOF.

In the body of the document, I want have all of the figure caption text in one group without having to hit "return."

I created a "figure caption" style from which my TOF automatically updates. However, I can't change styles in the middle of my figure caption; if I highlight part of the text and select the "normal" style, the entire caption changes to "normal."