You can restore the Frames command to the Insert menu using Tools |
Customize.

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"NoExpert" wrote in message
...
OK, after reading the article you recommended, I could do something as
good
as WordPerfect. With the cursor in your preferred spot, click "Insert
Frame"
from the "Forms" toolbar (why is it not in the "Insert" menu!!). You can
then draw with the cursor a frame of any size. Then insert in it the
picture
(it will auto-scale to the frame size). Then select the picture, Insert|
Reference|Caption. Voila!, the caption will be inside the frame, under
the
picture, and will move and resize with the frame.
Thanks again.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Are you drawing the figures in Word?

I see you heading for a problem--captions are text, and anything on the
drawing canvas sounds like a floating image, and never the twain shall
meet
in Word. If you are writing "text with figures", it's not clear why you
want floating images anyhow.

I suspect it would be better if your images were in-line with text, so
that
Word treated them more or less as a paragraph, and then the caption was
the
next paragraph. I'm not very familiar with graphics in Word myself, but
see
this article, so that you know why using floating images may not be the
best
idea:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrwGrphcs/DrawLayer.htm

Others may come along with advice more specific to what you are trying
to
do.


On 9/19/05 8:48 AM, "NoExpert" wrote:

Carol, thanks. The method works but not very well. If I select first
the
drawing canvas and then insert caption, the caption appears correctly
scaled
to the width of the canvas, but about one inch below the canvas, not
particularly associated with it. And it does not naturally go into
the
canvas (I have to make the canvas longer, and fool around a lot).
Perhaps
there is a more efficient way. but thanks again.

"Carol" wrote:

In Word 2003 - Insert | Reference | Caption.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

"NoExpert" wrote:

I am writing text with figures and do not find a simple way of
putting
figure
captions, i.e. "Fig. 1. The top panel shows...". I am now putting
a text
box within the drawing canvas and under the "picture" in the figure.
But
there must be a better way. In WordPerfect (dare I say that
name...) one
right clicks on the figure and the options "Create caption" or "Edit
Caption"
appear. And there is even a helpful self-numbering facility. How
to do it
in Word?

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