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I finally found a solution to this (see:http://texblog.org/2007/07/30/list-of-figures-and-list-of-tables-listoffigures-listoftables/).

In brief, let the additional words be part of the caption (may be enclosed in brackets). Then use the following script:
\caption[shorter caption for lof/lot]{long ...

Thanks for those who have responded. However I suspect I was not undertood because none of the proposed solutions work. This is what I want to do: I want to have some comments (in small scripts) just below the title of a figure/table. For instance: (This table was drawn using data from so and so ...

Hi All, I'm relatively new to Latex so forgive me if my question sounds too basic.

I would like to add some comments or footnote (just below the table/figure) after the table or figure caption (e.g. this table/figure) was drawn using data ... Please help.