Display the word ‘Figure’ in List of Figure Latex

Configuring my thesis document format it’s quite tedious :D, but so interesting.

I also want to know How can i set my listoffigures to display the word ‘Figure’ before the figure number?

What i want is that the List of Figures displays as follows:

Figure 1 : caption………………………….page
Figure 2 : caption………………………….page
Figure 3 : caption………………………….page

Getting the tips from this source, the solution will be

Re: Figures and listoffigures..  

by Stefan_K on Mon Jun 30th, 2008

Hi fipoo,

welcome to this forum!
You could use the tocloft package to customize the list of figures, see its documentation. Have a look at the following small example demonstrating it similar to your description:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand*\cftfigpresnum{Figure~}
\settowidth{\cftfignumwidth}{\cftfigpresnum}
\renewcommand{\cftfigaftersnumb}{\quad--~}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\newpage
\begin{figure}
\centering
Test\caption{Test}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Thank you
Stefan