List of figures Text alignment

[Martin Koschel]

(NOTE: X-POST - This problem has been posted in german language in
microsoft.public.de.word as well, no success so far)

Hello Everyone,

using Word 2000 I experience this problem with the automated table of
figures

Figure 1.1: Used Cars
Figure 1.11: New Cars
Figure 10.5: Old and new cars at a used car store
which are offered at unreasonable price but
are hard to find elsewhere
Figure 10.123: Old Convertibles

But I would like to have it look like this:

Figure 1.1: Used Cars
Figure 1.11: New Cars
Figure 10.5: Old and new cars at a used car store
which are offered at unreasonable price but
are hard to find elsewhere
Figure 10.123: Old Convertibles

Note: The captions are formatted to be centered underneath the figures. This
is a formatting requirement I cannot disregard.

Have tried lots of stuff on the styles, but everything I tried did not work.
The problem is that when the figure numbering is bumped up by one digit the
alignment will not work any longer.
The only solution I was suggested was to manually edit the list of figures
before final printout. Would work, though, but I am looking for something
more smooth, i.e. something fully automated.
I can not imagine I am the only person with this problem....

Any input on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your
time and your help.


Regards,

Martin

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Martin,

(NOTE: X-POST - This problem has been posted in german language in
microsoft.public.de.word as well, no success so far)

Which isn't quite accurate. Martin has gotten a few answers, and
they are leading to solutions.

The most recent suggestion was to put the figures and captions into
a frame, with the TAB stop in the caption style, and to center the
FRAME. That way, the caption should carry across to the TOF.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24
2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Martin Koschel]

Cindy is abloutely right.
Saying no success is in no way accurate. I apologize, and want to thank
everyone for their contributions.
Still, the answers I received are not quite exactly what I am looking for,
each of them has limitations.

That's why I decided to do this cross-posting. The intent was not to offend
anybody who tried to help me before, but to gather additional information
instead.

Thanks,

Martin

 

[Martin Koschel]

Hello Everyone,

Cindy and I are still discussing the TOF formatting issue, also decribed in
this thread, in the german language word newsgroup microsoft.public.de.word.
Although quite a couple of ideas came up so far (thanks folks), we did not
find "the ultimate solution".
Here's the status:
1) One solution would be having word search and replace ":[space] " by
":[tab]" in the TOF before final printout. Problem: Some difficulties might
emerge, if the document needs to be submitted electronically, and the
recipient (inadvertently or on purpose) updates the TOC / TOF field, thus
erasing the tabs.

2) Inserting horizontally centered frame (also cf. Cindy's posting in this
thread). The text goes into that frame, left-centered with a tab stop after
the caption name (Fig, Table, whatever). Set up the TOF field to inherit the
tabs. Works perfectly, but unfortunately only for captions fitting into a
single line. As soon as the caption wraps to a second line, the result looks
somewhat strange.

3) Just insert a Tab into the caption, or in the caption style respectively,
and indent the second line. Works alright for left aligned captions, but
goes awry with centered ones.

4) Splitting the captio nin three parts (I did not quite understand what
Cindy tried to explain me.... keep you posted as soon as I caught up on that
one)

5) Somehow 'blanking' the tab in the caption, but still making it show up in
the TOF. Couldn't get that to work.

6) Setting up the style for the caption so that it contains lots of tiny
tabstops in that area, where the caption number ending usually is located
at, thus making the tabstop almost uneffective for the caption. Then, after,
say, "Figure 10.12:" is written in the caption, hit the tab key (causing a
small space) and then insert a quarter en-space (do you call them like that
in english? not quite sure about that, sorry....). Shortcoming of this
method: either the spacing is to short (if no quarter en-space is inserted)
or somewhat to wide (if the quarter en-space is inserted). Unfortunately,
the number of maximum tabs per style is limited, so that not enough tiny
tabstops can be inserted, that are small enough to be invisible while
covering the horizontal range from 2 cm to 6 cm.......

Any input on this is highly appreciated. I will keep this X-posting updated,
in order to avoid that work is done twice.

Thanks a lot for your effort,

Martin