Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

[Stuart Rogers]

Pete Rourke wrote:
> FM8 Windows XP
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> I started from the book add>List of > Figures using the paragraph tag,
> Caption, but I have not figured out how to put this into the reference page
> (like what the standard index does) to do the alphabetical sorting.
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> Is there a special marker for figures?
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> I have 2 pages of 2 col generated List of figures (screenshots) and when
> indexed are sorted in the order of the pages in the book.
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> Is there a way to have them appear alphabetically like the generated regular
> index?
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Others have already replied with lots of good advice.  I'll just add 
that a work-around, if you want to sort the list you have, would be to 
convert it to a table, one cell per paragraph, and then sort the table. 
  It's a maintenance headache of course, nothing automated about it, but 
it would accomplish what you ask.

best,

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Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
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