If you have Figures, Graphics, Charts etc. and want to list them all in a table format then Microsoft Word can help you to do that easily, with an option to create auto table of figures. We wrote before the process to create table of contents in Word, and toady we are writing that how you can automatically create table of figures in Word 2007 / 2010.
See how to Create Table of Figures
Step 1
Simply open your Word document, scroll down to the figure and select figure’s caption. Now, click on the arrow besides Change Styles, and select Heading style from options available suppose I selected Heading 5, in the same manner apply Heading 5 to all figure’s captions of your document
Step 2
Click on References menu > Insert Table of Figures
Following window will open, make here changes according to your requirement and click Options button
In this window select Heading 5 as Style and click OK and also close the previous screen
See Table of Figures is inserted in document
Update Table of Figures
In case if you insert or delete and figure in document then you also have to update table of figures, to do that simply select the table of figures you created and navigate to References menu > Update Table and that’s all.
We hope now it will be easy for you to create table of contents and table of figures automatically for your Word 2007 or 2010 documents, so if you have any further questions then just write us in comments by the end of this post.
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I was confused how to create table of contents and table of figures in one word 2010 file you did great job and thanks for helping to complete my assignment.
Thanks for helping to create table of figures in word
Thanks for the excellent tip. It saves my time.
It seems that word includes all the whole caption for all the figures, is it possible to only include the first sentence, as the captions in scientific articles are usually quite thorough?
Special Thanks
I agree that it should be that easy. However in my options window I have a very limited subset of format styles that it will actually let me link to the table of figures.
I have tried modifying one of the available options and it declared every line of my document as a figure. How do I make it except other existing format styles as valid options. It wants me to select "balloon text" by default and I can't even find that one.
thanks alote it as very usfull
thanks again
Easy and good tutorial, thanks for the help that was pretty usefull.
I am updating an existing document but do not know how it was created. How do I determine what style is currently defined for other figures in a document so I can add a new figure reference?
Thanks,
Thank you, i solved the problem because of your help.