When Microsoft Word builds a table of figures, it looks for captions only in the text layer. Word ignores any captions that appear in the drawing layer. For example, if you insert a caption for a floating object, the caption is automatically placed in a text box in the drawing layer.
If you haven’t already inserted a figure and its caption, insert the figure as an inline object, and then insert the caption as usual. If you’ve already inserted captions in text boxes, you can convert the text boxes into frames.
The text {TOC} appears instead of my table of figures.
A table of figures is inserted in your document as a field. If you see something like {TOC} instead of the table of figures, the field is being displayed instead of field results. To view the results for the table of figures, select the entire table of figures field, including the braces, {}, and then press SHIFT+F9.
If you add, delete, move, or edit text in a document, you need to update the table of authorities or table of figures. To do this, click to the left of the table of authorities or table of figures that you want to update, and then press F9.
The figures in my table of figures are not in sequence.
If you add, delete, move, or edit text in a document, you need to update the table of figures and you may also need to update the figures themselves. To do this, press CTRL+A to select the entire document, and then press F9.
I see "passim" instead of page numbers in my table of authorities.