How to Create a List of Tables in MS Word

By Ugur Akinci

Follow these steps in MS Word:
(1) Give all your tables a title. Create a “Table Title” style and assign that style to all your table titles.
(2) Click your cursor at where you’d like to place your List of Tables.
Its traditional location in a technical document is right after the Table of Contents (if any) and after the “List of Figures” (if any).
(3) Select the References tab from the main menu. Then click Insert Table of Figures to display the Table of Figures dialog box.
(4) Clear the “Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers” check-box if you do not want to jump to a HTML destination accidentally.
(5) Select the “Show page numbers” check-box. Select the “Right align page numbers” check-box. Select a Tab Leader if you like from the drop-down list.
(6) Select “Table” from the Caption Label drop-down list to display table captions in the Print Preview box.
(7) Click Options button. From the Style list, select the Table Style that you’ve created earlier.
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Click OK.
(8) Select the related “Include label and number” check-box:
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(9) Select a template from the Formats drop-down list.
(10) Click OK to display your List of Tables at where your cursor is:
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