changing style within caption

I am writing my PhD thesis (word 2000) and have been using the Insert/Caption
to label all figures and tables in my document. I then intend to use the
Insert/Index and Tables to generate the List of Tables and List of Figures
for the thesis. The problem is, many of my Table captions contain text
(explanatory notes etc) that I wish to excluded from the List of Tables. I
thought that I would be able to go into the Table caption and apply the
"Normal" style to that text which I don't want to appear in my List of
Tables. This doesn't work, as I apparently cannot change the style of a
subset of the text that is in a caption. I guess I could just generate the
list of Tables and then manually delete that text which i don't want, but
this can pose a problem with page numbering etc. I'd rather have a way of
formatting the caption so that only the relevant text gets picked up and spit
out when i generate my Lists.

Any suggestions most welcome! The simpler the better.

Thanks
Darrin

Hi, Darrin. Click on Insert | Caption, and type the part of the caption that
you want to see in the List of Tables. Press the Enter key to start a new
paragraph, and type the caption text that you don't want to see in the List
of Tables. Select the second paragraph and format it with the Normal style.
Click on the ¶ button on the Standard toolbar near the top of your screen to
toggle on display of formatting characters (if you don't have a ¶ button,
press Ctrl+Shift+*, or click on Tools | Options | View | All). Select the
paragraph mark (¶) at the end of the first caption paragraph, and click on
Format | Font | Hidden. Click on the ¶ button again to toggle off display of
formatting characters. Now the two paragraphs of your caption will appear to
be one paragraph, but still functions as two paragraphs in Word.

"Darrin" wrote:

I am writing my PhD thesis (word 2000) and have been using the Insert/Caption
to label all figures and tables in my document. I then intend to use the
Insert/Index and Tables to generate the List of Tables and List of Figures
for the thesis. The problem is, many of my Table captions contain text
(explanatory notes etc) that I wish to excluded from the List of Tables. I
thought that I would be able to go into the Table caption and apply the
"Normal" style to that text which I don't want to appear in my List of
Tables. This doesn't work, as I apparently cannot change the style of a
subset of the text that is in a caption. I guess I could just generate the
list of Tables and then manually delete that text which i don't want, but
this can pose a problem with page numbering etc. I'd rather have a way of
formatting the caption so that only the relevant text gets picked up and spit
out when i generate my Lists.

Any suggestions most welcome! The simpler the better.

Thanks
Darrin