WD: InsertTableOfFigures Command Includes Heading Styles

• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1
• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a

SYMPTOMS

A table of figures created by a WordBasic macro shows the wrong text. Instead of listing the figure numbers and their captions, it shows text from all the heading paragraphs.

CAUSE

The WordBasic command InsertTableOfFigures uses the .Outline argument to identify which text in the document is to be included in the table. 1 indicates that heading styles should be used; 0 indicates that captions should be used. This argument is set to 1 by default.

RESOLUTION

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For example, the following macro creates a table of figures based on captions only:

   Sub Main
      InsertTableOfFigures .Outline = 0, .Caption = "Figure", .Label = 1
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Word for Windows version's listed above. This problem was corrected in Word 97 for Windows and Word 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

Both the InsertTableOfContents command and InsertTableOfFigures command insert a TOC field into the Word document.

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q105094
   TITLE     : Macro Recorder Does Not Record InsertTableOfFigures

   ARTICLE-ID: Q126599
   TITLE     : Unavailable WordBasic Commands in Protected Forms