@WhiteRAZOR Thankyou so much for this. It has helped heaps however I have one quick question... When dragged the caption into the table for the first time you said that we could re-format it using styles. My problem is that I would like the format of my equations captions to be different to my tables captions like in your Captions and Cross-References video. Is there a way to have different captions with different formats? Sorry for the long-winded question... Thanks!
Don't worry I think I have worked a way around it. Once the caption has been dragged in I can edit the cell properties and it will change the format of the caption inside the table but not the format of those outside the table. Thanks again for the video!
@dcoward73 Hmmm I had a bit of a muck around... I don't think there's a way to have a different style for that specific caption label. It seems like when you put in a caption, it uses the caption layout. I tried modifying the font manually by just highlighting the caption and changing it, but I don't know how well that will stick. Give it a go, and just don't modify the Caption template and it may be good :P Sorry I can't find a better solution!
@WhiteRAZOR Thank you for trying anyway. I tried to update my comment to say that I had figured a way around it but im a bit of a noob at replying to comments haha. By altering the table properties I was able to change the format of the caption in the table without affecting any captions outside of the table. Then when i saved this table as a template all the subsequent tables had the right format :D Thanks again!
@ItsaStringThing Ah yes it's a tricky thing to think of... I didn't (see the reference). It does make me believe there will be a proper system in the next version of Word. I don't think Office 10 has it either.
@Whiterazor Perhaps unknowingly, your intention to help UofA civil students turns out to have helped various engineering students in their engineering report/thesis. Thanks so much!
@kiyaiz Thanks! It's great to hear something like this. I did intend to let others use this, but I specified it for civil students of UofA because of how we have quite specific (to an extent) formats regarding fonts, size, and spacing. I have a PDF version of these videos if you're interested for yourself or others!
(I replied on my phone before but don't know if it worked... YouTube need to make the site compatible, or Apple need to learn that flash and Java exist)
Thanks for the awesome video! I always had problems with this...
As for the border for the table, there is a way to fix it!
Before you save the selection to quick tables gallery, do this:
Highlight the entire table, right click go to table properties, then under Table tab, click on Borders and Shading... here under Borders, change the color to white, you will notice the Style for the line you had changed to clear. Make sure Page Border and Shading are all set to color white. That is it :)
@riDDDiculous Ah yeah, I have tried white boarders but I really don't like it having a border at all. I know you can't see it, but you know it's there and it really shouldn't be! You say "no boarder" and it keeps changing what you want! Thanks though!
@WhiteRAZOR haha yeah but I have to get the equations in there and this seems to be the only good way of having numbered equations. I need this for my thesis too. But nice video!
@riDDDiculous It took me a lot of searching too. I got it from a blog of some Microsoft Engineer or something (I think I said who in the tutorial), so that pretty much means there's no way to number equations in Word since that person would know if there was!
thank you so much
absa0f 1 month ago
I've been looking around the web for this... Thanks dude !
tarmizi2005 1 month ago
Wow. It was great.
kamranbigdely 2 months ago in playlist MS Word 2007/2010 tutorials
TO @microsoft it's so stupid with this kind of complex numbering system for equations. could you make it a bit simpler?
elviseno 4 months ago
@WhiteRAZOR Thankyou so much for this. It has helped heaps however I have one quick question... When dragged the caption into the table for the first time you said that we could re-format it using styles. My problem is that I would like the format of my equations captions to be different to my tables captions like in your Captions and Cross-References video. Is there a way to have different captions with different formats? Sorry for the long-winded question... Thanks!
dcoward73 5 months ago in playlist MS Word 2007/2010 tutorials
Don't worry I think I have worked a way around it. Once the caption has been dragged in I can edit the cell properties and it will change the format of the caption inside the table but not the format of those outside the table. Thanks again for the video!
dcoward73 5 months ago in playlist MS Word 2007/2010 tutorials
@dcoward73 Nice! Good work and thanks for letting me know. That's useful information!
WhiteRAZOR 5 months ago
@dcoward73 Hmmm I had a bit of a muck around... I don't think there's a way to have a different style for that specific caption label. It seems like when you put in a caption, it uses the caption layout. I tried modifying the font manually by just highlighting the caption and changing it, but I don't know how well that will stick. Give it a go, and just don't modify the Caption template and it may be good :P Sorry I can't find a better solution!
WhiteRAZOR 5 months ago
@WhiteRAZOR Thank you for trying anyway. I tried to update my comment to say that I had figured a way around it but im a bit of a noob at replying to comments haha. By altering the table properties I was able to change the format of the caption in the table without affecting any captions outside of the table. Then when i saved this table as a template all the subsequent tables had the right format :D Thanks again!
dcoward73 5 months ago
Great video thanks a lot! Its ridiculous that Office still doesn't have this option.
kzawy 6 months ago
Thanks heaps! I thought about using tables, but didn't think to use the captions, saved styles and all that.
ItsaStringThing 6 months ago
@ItsaStringThing Ah yes it's a tricky thing to think of... I didn't (see the reference). It does make me believe there will be a proper system in the next version of Word. I don't think Office 10 has it either.
WhiteRAZOR 6 months ago
@Whiterazor Perhaps unknowingly, your intention to help UofA civil students turns out to have helped various engineering students in their engineering report/thesis. Thanks so much!
kiyaiz 6 months ago
@kiyaiz Thanks! It's great to hear something like this. I did intend to let others use this, but I specified it for civil students of UofA because of how we have quite specific (to an extent) formats regarding fonts, size, and spacing. I have a PDF version of these videos if you're interested for yourself or others!
(I replied on my phone before but don't know if it worked... YouTube need to make the site compatible, or Apple need to learn that flash and Java exist)
WhiteRAZOR 6 months ago
Dude! Your a cybernetic organism which came from the future to save my ass!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!
miguelituhx 7 months ago
Thanks it was very useful!
TonySatriano 11 months ago
At last, a technique that works. Thank you very much indeed. It is sick though, that Microsoft haven't done it the "proper" way yet. Thanks again.
juliandizy 1 year ago 3
@juliandizy Sometimes there are problems with this method though, but I agree, they should have a feature.
WhiteRAZOR 1 year ago
Thanks for the awesome video! I always had problems with this...
As for the border for the table, there is a way to fix it!
Before you save the selection to quick tables gallery, do this:
Highlight the entire table, right click go to table properties, then under Table tab, click on Borders and Shading... here under Borders, change the color to white, you will notice the Style for the line you had changed to clear. Make sure Page Border and Shading are all set to color white. That is it :)
riDDDiculous 1 year ago
@riDDDiculous Ah yeah, I have tried white boarders but I really don't like it having a border at all. I know you can't see it, but you know it's there and it really shouldn't be! You say "no boarder" and it keeps changing what you want! Thanks though!
WhiteRAZOR 1 year ago
@WhiteRAZOR haha yeah but I have to get the equations in there and this seems to be the only good way of having numbered equations. I need this for my thesis too. But nice video!
riDDDiculous 1 year ago
@riDDDiculous It took me a lot of searching too. I got it from a blog of some Microsoft Engineer or something (I think I said who in the tutorial), so that pretty much means there's no way to number equations in Word since that person would know if there was!
WhiteRAZOR 1 year ago