Text Formatting ⇒ Addtocontents not adding line to the top of page

[ririya]

I'm getting a weird behavior where addtocontents is not adding the line to the top of the page. Basically it's supposed to be a header which indicates figure and page on my list of figures. How can I fix this?

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\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{LIST OF TABLES}
\listoftables
\addtocontents{lot}{Table~\hfill Page \par}

\newpage
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{LIST OF FIGURES}
\listoffigures
\addtocontents{lof}{Figure~\hfill Page \par}
\newpage

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[kaiserkarl13]

It has to do with when each file is read and written. Try this:

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\makeatletter
  \immediate\write\@auxout{\noexpand\@writefile{lof}{%
    \figurename~\hfill Page \par}%
  }%

A better way would be to redefine the list of figures; I had a similar document that I solved by doing this:

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\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter{\listfigurename}%
      \@mkboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
    {\normalsize\parindent\z@\textbf{\figurename\hfill Page}\par}%
    {\hyphenpenalty=\list@hyphen@penalty\@starttoc{lof}}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
}

[Ijon Tichy]

Note: The shown code depends on the used document class and packages. It can destroy several things if you do not use class report or class book or if you use a packages, that already redefines \listoffigure.

BTW: LoF and LoT at part level is very unusual. For book and report level chapter (for the \addcontentsline command in ririya's post) would be correct. If this is neither book nor report see my note above.

A minimal working example would help us to make better suggestions.