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Table of Figures not working

Anonymous
2021-09-10T10:59:33+00:00

I am creating a document that has charts and photos in it surrounded by words. I have inserted photos, added captions to them, grouped the caption and the image and then when I want to images next to each other I have grouped the two images with their captions. this has worked find on another document I created but with this document the table of figures only has one entry. I have tried update and update entire table but it doesn't go past the first item - which is figure one - I can't see a difference between the images and the captions. Actually I just replace the first image and caption and now it says  No table of figures entries found.

I changed it to draft view and copied it to another file but it is doing the same. Any ideas people?

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  1. Stefan Blom 339.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-09-10T11:03:44+00:00

    Did you make sure that the table of figures references the correct caption label? Try recreating the table of figures in the References > Insert Table of Figures dialog box.

    This may be difficult to diagnose without looking at a sample document. You can upload such a document to (say) OneDrive or Dropbox and post a share link here.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-11T14:34:30+00:00

    YAY

    Checking which ones didn't have the {SEQ Figure \* ARABIC} code and redoing them has worked - for now anyway.

    I am doing several chapters each in a separate document and then I will have to amalgamate them into one document and redo the table of contents/figures which I know is going to be a pain - I'm glad that I checked it was working now and didn't find out later. I think I saw something about setting up the figure caption to use the chapter and then maybe restart at one so that might be worth investigating so I don't have to redo all the captions - any ideas?

    Thanks a lot both for your replies and the Alt+Fn+F9 - now I know what to look for if it plays up again

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-09-11T12:13:00+00:00

    I would very strongly recommend that you insert all of the images so that their layout is set to In-Line with text, which will result in them being inserted in a paragraph which you should then format so that it is kept together with the next paragraph into which you insert the caption.

    If you do that, you should have no problem with creating the Table of Contents and probably more importantly, your document will be less likely to become corrupted as a result of mismatched xml tag errors.

    If you need to display images side by side, insert them into the cells of a table

    If you need to annotate or mark up images, thereby creating what I refer to as a compound image, create the image in a separate document and then use a screen capture utility to create a single image which you then insert into your document so that it is In-line with text. Retain the separate document in case it becomes necessary to edit the compound image.

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  4. Stefan Blom 339.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-09-11T08:45:43+00:00

    What do you see in place of the table of figures and also in place of the caption numbers, if you show field codes? Verify that the instructions are consistent. In particular, each caption of the same type should look similar. For example, a figure might look like this: { SEQ Figure \h }.

    To show/hide field codes, press Alt+F9 (or Alt+Fn+F9 on some keyboards).

    Again, if you are able to share the document, or a representative sample of it, please do that.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-09-10T11:11:20+00:00

    I've tried to recreate it a few times now. Like I say it won't get past the first caption of figure one. I have deleted what was the first figure and caption and uploaded a different one and recreated and grouped the caption but the same thing happens.

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