Sunday, September 5, 2010

Inserting more tables and updating list of tables accordingly

When you create your tables and caption them using the Caption facility provided by Microsoft Word, the table names will numbered authomatically. You can then create your List of Tables more conveniently. You can always do this during your academic documents writing, without a need to await until it has been finished.

What happen if you insert a table in middle section? For exampe, you have created a 70 pages document with many orderly numbered tables already in it. If you insert a new table in earlier pages, than the Caption facility will redo autonumbering of your tables. So, your tables will always be correctly auto numbered.

No that so with your List of Tables. It does not change automatically as you include new tables. You have to update it to include the added tables names and pages. Here is how to do it:

  1. Go to your old List of Tables, and right click anywhere in that List of Tables
  2. Click Update Field
  3. Click Update entire table in appearing window
  4. Click OK.

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