Advanced TOC problem

I have a long document (73 pages) that has multiple figures, tables, headings and subheadings, etc. I can generate a TOC but the problem I’m having is per our “document guidelines” figure and table caption must be short. Some of my figure captions are 7 lines.
Any ideas. Thanks

Check out the InDesigner blog for some useful video podcasts regarding InDesign. Michael Murphy has a section on Long Documents that may help.
One suggestion is to duplicate the paragraph style that is used for the captions. Rename it slightly so that it is not picked up by the TOC script.
Example:
Caption Style
Caption NoTOC Style
Set the long captions in the NoTOC style.
Add a text frame to the page to hold a short caption.
Assign the Caption style to it.
Set the text fill swatch to None, or set the frame to non-printing.
You may wish to group it with the visible image caption.
This should allow you to have a long caption for the printed page and a short caption picked up in the TOC.
If the issue is that the entire caption is not picked up by the TOC, and that is what you desire, then I believe there is the option to paste the text into a text frame and place that into the caption text frame as an anchored object. I've not tested that myself, but I've seen it posted somewhere as an option.
HTH
-mt

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