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Create a table of authorities

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Create a table of authorities

- [Instructor] This document includes two different types of illustrations that I have captioned. I captioned a table and I've captioned two illustrations and the label that I created for those is the label image. Now because I've used the captioning feature, I have the ability to do one other thing really easily which is to create a table that lists the figures or a table that lists the tables to make it easy for my reader to return and to find a specific item that they wish to reference. If you have a style guide that tells you where this needs to go, you will know where to put it. Otherwise, you have a choice to put this at the start of a document near the table of contents or the end of the document near, for example, an index or a list of work cited. I'm going to put this at the end of my document, so I'm going to click anywhere in the document, Control + End, and there I am and Control + Enter to go to a new page. Click the References tab, Insert Table of Figures even though I'm…

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