It is much easier to create a separate table of illustrations than to try to embed this information within a TOC.
All you need to do is to “tag” your illustrations with a dedicated paragraph. You didn’t describe how your images were added to your document. For this solution, I assume the images have been Insert
ed>Image
and anchored to some paragraph (this is the most versatile setting, though perhaps not the easiest for a beginner).
Tagging an image:
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click on an image to select it
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Insert
>Caption
- select from Category drop-down menu the one best fitting your taste (
Illustration
or Figure
might be what you expect)
- type the caption in Caption entry box
OK
You now have a frame containing the nested image and a paragraph for the caption. The caption has received a paragraph style which name is the same as the “category”. Customize said paragraph style to your needs. By default, the frame has frame style Frame. This is the style to modify to add some padding space around the illustrations but due to some “glitches” with frame style updates (upsetting newbies), you might be better off doing direct-formatting on the frames (and only on the frames).
You may already have captions for your illustrations. Remove these because they are not linked to the illustrations as are the inserted captions.
When all your images are tagged, go before or after the TOC, where you want the list of illustrations.
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Insert
>TOC & Index
>TOC, Index or Biliography
- from Type, select
Table of Figures
- set your own Title
- from Category, select
Illustration
(in fact the category you selected when captioning your images)
OK
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