How to remove the caption "Figure" from the Table of figures in Microsoft Word?
In my thesis, I have the following table of figures (it's in French): .
As you can see the expression "Figure" is repeated throughout the table ("Figure 1.1", "Figure 1.2", etc.). However, according to my college's visual requirements for publishing theses, I have to delete the repeated caption "Figure" in my Table of contents.
How could I do that without manually deleting the word "Figure" line by line, or altering the body text?
Here is the final result that I want: .
1 Answer
The Table of Figures in Word is a type of Table of Contents. It is actually the same field. By default, it picks up whatever is in the Caption style in your document. That style is used when you insert a caption.
To remove the word "Figure" from your Table of Figures entries, you need to remove it from the Captions, themselves. It may be possible to have appear to be in the captions but that is going to require a Style Separator.
This is not simple but can be done. Here is what it looks like:
Here is a temporary link to a document with this done.
Prior to doing this:
- Turn on display of non-printing formatting characters.
Steps that have to be applied to each caption:
- The Caption needs to be split into two paragraphs after the word “Figure” by pressing the enter key. So press Enter.
- To the first paragraph containing the word “Figure” the paragraph style CaptionFalse was applied. This is a custom style based on Body Text but with the font formatting of the Caption Style. It is NOT based on the Caption style. You will need to create the CaptionFalse style the first time you do this. (You can choose your own name if you want.)
- The paragraph mark at the end of that paragraph is selected and marked with the font formatting of hidden. This can be done by selecting just the paragraph mark and pressing Ctrl+Shift+H to mark it as hidden. Otherwise, this is in the Format Font dialog. This turns the paragraph mark into a "style separator."
After you have finished altering all of your captions...
- Turn off display of non-printing formatting marks. This display may change your pagination.
- When the Table of Figures is created or updated, it picks up the text in the Caption style but ignores that in the CaptionFalse Style. Update your Table of Figures.
