[bjm[_2_]]

I think they are trying to tell us "You shouldn't be doing THAT."

Their ideas of what we should & shouldn't be doing (easily or at all)
certainly do seem inscrutible.
bj

"CyberTaz" gtz1@comcastdotnet wrote in message
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Your ideas are definitely better, but one other twist on the Text Box
option: In 2007 you can still right-click the edge of a Text Box, select
Format Text Box, then Convert to Frame -- same dialog as before, just more
obscure :-) Why you can't still get into the Format Text Box [or Format
Picture or Format AutoShape...] by way of a dbl-click I can't understand,
though.

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Regards |:)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The best approach to both problems is to put both figure and caption
together in a frame. You can place the frame anywhere you like on the
page, including spanning columns.

The trick is how to insert a frame in Word 2007, as the command has been
made much more difficult to find. It's in the Legacy Forms palette of
Legacy Tools on the Developer tab (if you have that displayed), but
that's the hard way. The best solution is to add Insert Frame (from All
Commands in the Customize dialog) to the QAT. Then select your figure and
caption together, click the Insert Frame button, and then format your
frame as desired.

The alternative is to use a text box for the caption (and group it with
the figure) or put both figure and caption in a text box. The drawback to
this is that, while Word 2007 can see text in a text box for purposes of
generating cross-references and a Table of Figures, earlier versions
cannot, so your document would not be backward-compatible.