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How to update your Table of Contents, Table of Tables or Table of Figuresīe careful Blogging Brexit Business Celebration Computers Copy-typing Copyediting Ebooks Errors Ethics Excel Facebook Guest posts Iris Murdoch Jobs Language use Localisation Marketing New skills Newsletters Organisation PowerPoint proofreading Prosopagnosia Punctuation Reading Reference materials Reviews SEO Short cuts Skillset Small Business Chat Social media Students Trados Transcription Troublesome pairs Twitter Uncategorized Volunteering What Do I Do? Why bother Windows Word WordPress Writing Thank you! Other useful posts on this blog If you have found this useful, please comment using the comment box below and/or share using the social media sharing buttons. This article has taught you how to create two-line figure captions which show on one line in your Table of Figures. Now create your Table of Figures using References, Insert Table of Figures and you should have one entry per Figure: Place the cursor at the start of the caption and press Shift+Enter to move it down to the next line: Type the whole caption into the Insert Caption box and press OK: Place the cursor at the end of the figure label and hit Shift+Enter to start a new line: Make sure the figure label reads as you want it to (adjust the label to Table, etc.) and then hit OK Place the cursor where you want to insert your caption and go to the References tab, Insert Caption: The key is to use the soft line return (Shift+Enter) rather than a hard, paragraph return (Enter). How to create a two-line figure caption so the Table of Figures only has one line per figure However, when you create your Table of Figures, it either won’t pick up the second line at all or will create two entries in the Table of Figures:
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The natural inclination is to use the Return key to split the Figure label and caption, either by entering it all in one line in Insert Caption then splitting it up or using Insert Caption to add the title, hitting Enter then adding the caption. How not to create a two-line figure caption This is a very specific situation where the style guide for your organisation or publisher demands that you have Figure and Table captions set out over two lines, but you want the Table of Figures to have one line including both Figure label and caption, so it looks something like this: This one was suggested by a regular reader of this blog in a comment, and I promise to write about it quite a long time ago.