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How can I include only part of an image caption in a table of figures in Microsoft Word?

How can I include only part of an image caption in a table of figures in Microsoft Word? For my dissertation I am writing long captions on all my figures. This makes my table of figures very awkward,...
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Word caption style -- different style for label and number?

This should be a common problem for anyone involved in technical writing. When you insert an image (or table etc.) caption in Word, you get this dialog. You enter your caption, in this case "A happy ...
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Setting Microsoft Word completely to another language

When I'm using the English language in MS-Word 2007, it does indeed use a new dictionary, but the automatic caption names are still in my own language (Dutch). For example: If I use insert caption I ...
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Include only part of a figure caption within a textbox in a table of figures in MS Word

I am writing a thesis paper with long figure captions. I have discovered how to use Style Separator to have only the first sentence appear in the list of figures, however all my captions are in text ...
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How can I hide part of a caption in the document but show it in the contents?

I have the inverse problem to this user. I have a lot of figures that have the same caption. This makes the figure contents table look pretty repetitive and uninformative, like this: Image of the ...
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How to format part of a figure caption in MS Word bold, and the other part regular?

I would like to generate figure captions as displayed in the image below. The figure caption should contain 3 parts: Part 1: Automatic numbering including chapter number and figure number. Font: ...
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