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Table formatting issues which disables the proper use of style separator
Dear Microsoft community, I am trying to add a style separator in a table this works fine if I start a new document and a table but doesn’t work as expected when I am using the table in my curren...
Rjaga760 Click inside the table and then from the table Layout tab, click on Convert to Text
In the Convert Table dialog, select Paragraph Marks and then click on OK.
Hover the mouse over the frame that is still present
and then right click and left click on Format Frame
Then in the Frame dialog, click no Remove Frame
Select the image and text that was originally in the table and then via the Insert>Table dropdown, convert the text back to a Table.
Rjaga760Not a problem.
Your caption is (1} not in the Caption Style, which could cause a problem with a Table of Figures, and (2) the reason why the Style Separator does not work is that your first paragraph is in a Frame, the second is not. The Style Separator can't deal with that.
I'm not sure how this happened but suspect that the text came from a converted source.
Remove the Frame. You can do this by selecting the part of the Caption you want to appear in a Table of Figures and applying the Caption style to it. You can modify the Caption style to look however you want.
Dear Sir,
I am not sure I follow what you mean. If I check the frame settings in my document it shows that it’s set to None. Plus if I select a text and apply the caption style to it then the text is getting wrapped.
However, when I make a new table and copy paste the figure and caption onto there then the style separator works fine. But to do this for all 100 images seems tedious. Is there another way I can correct current table somehow?
It would be great if you could give me a demonstration or tell directions in simple terms. I am sorry for these questions, but I am not an expert in word and any help from your side is deeply appreciated.
Thank you
Best regards.
I am not sure I follow what you mean. If I check the frame settings in my document it shows that it’s set to None. Plus if I select a text and apply the caption style to it then the text is getting wrapped.
However, when I make a new table and copy paste the figure and caption onto there then the style separator works fine. But to do this for all 100 images seems tedious. Is there another way I can correct current table somehow?
It would be great if you could give me a demonstration or tell directions in simple terms. I am sorry for these questions, but I am not an expert in word and any help from your side is deeply appreciated.
Thank you
Best regards.
- Dear Sir,
This worked perfectly. Again Thank you very much for your help with this matter. You are the best!!!
Best Regards Rjaga760 Click inside the table and then from the table Layout tab, click on Convert to Text
In the Convert Table dialog, select Paragraph Marks and then click on OK.
Hover the mouse over the frame that is still present
and then right click and left click on Format Frame
Then in the Frame dialog, click no Remove Frame
Select the image and text that was originally in the table and then via the Insert>Table dropdown, convert the text back to a Table.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your response, I am hoping this will definitely solve the problem. But in my version of MS word, I don't see any option called format frame. I only get the following options:
So, I don't really know how can I solve this issue. I tried googling how to do this as well but there seems to be no clear response available for the steps I need to follow to format the frame. It is advised to use border and shading in the display section but I'm guessing that's not it?
Sorry for so many questions but I am grateful for your help with this matter. You are the best!!
Thank you so much
Best Regards
Dear Sir,
I appreciate your response. However, the issue is still not resolved even when I use "In Line with Text" for the image and add the style separator the results are shown below:
However, when I add a new table and copy and paste the data into that table this problem disappears as seen below:
Any tips you may have is greatly appreciated. Meanwhile, due to a time crunch, I have started updating the document with this process. Please let me know if there is any other thing I could do fix this problem ingeniously.
Thank you for your guidance with this matter.
Best regards,
Ritesh
Dear Sir,
I appreciate your detailed response however I don't think the issue is resolved yet in the file you sent me as soon as I turn off the paragraph mark the file looks like this again:
I inserted my captions including the caption style formatting for word. For some reason, all these captions get picked up when I use the table of figures so I am anticipating that these styles are still formulated using word caption style.
For instance, you can see below:
Am I missing something here?
Thank you.
Best,
Ritesh
Although my diagnosis works, Doug's solution is cleaner, easier.
I tried it, putting the figure in a separate paragraph that was centered. It looks like this.
Here is a temporary link to the document formatted in this way.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a910av8xz8z55af/deleteme%20Figure%203.docx?dl=0
Again, I believe that your Captions should be in the Caption Style if you want them picked up by a Table of Figures. Captions inserted using the Caption command in Word are automatically formatted in that style.
Rjaga760 You should change the layout of the picture so that it is "In Line with Text" in which case, it is in a paragraph by itself rather than being anchored to the caption paragraph, which is a believe the cause of you issue.
