You were both right. If I forget about the Drawing Canvas and just insert a
picture (which can be any graphic object), then I select it and insert
caption, it works wonderfully.
Dalya and Carol, you made my day!
"Carol" wrote:
I publish a monthly newsletter with screen shots throughout and do NOT use
the drawing canvas at all and the captions work very well for me. I never
have a problem with it.
"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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