[Tex/LaTex] Capitalize ‘List of Tables’ and ‘List of Figures’ in Table of Contents

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In my Table of Contents, the first two entries are List of Tables and List of Figures with the roman page numbers referring to where these lists actually are. I need to make these two entries all capitalized like LIST OF TABLES and LIST OF FIGURES. Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

By default there is a difference in what is passed as a contents-related entry and what is set within the document. Since you have little control over this when setting \listoffigures and \listoftables, the example below intervenes by passing the LoF/LoT entries using \MakeUppercase:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tocbibind}

\let\oldaddcontentsline\addcontentsline
\newcommand{\ADDCONTENTSLINE}[3]{%
  \oldaddcontentsline{#1}{#2}{\MakeUppercase{#3}}%
}
\newcommand{\CAPinToC}{\let\addcontentsline\ADDCONTENTSLINE}
\newcommand{\noCAPinToC}{\let\addcontentsline\oldaddcontentsline}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\CAPinToC% All entries in ToC will be CAPITALIZED from here on
\listoftables

\listoffigures

\noCAPinToC% Rever to original \addcontentsline formatting
\section{A section}

\begin{figure}\caption{A figure}\end{figure}
\begin{table}\caption{A table}\end{table}

\end{document}

You can activate this type of ToC-related formatting using \CAPinToC (or revert back to the original definition using \noCAPinToC).

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