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Rjaga760
Copper Contributor
Feb 15, 2023

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...
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    Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
    Feb 17, 2023

    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.

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Rjaga760
Copper Contributor
Feb 16, 2023
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.
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Charles_Kenyon
Bronze Contributor
Feb 16, 2023

Rjaga760 

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.

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    Rjaga760
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 17, 2023

    Charles_Kenyon 

    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

     

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