If your picture were inserted In Line With Text, then the caption would not
be in a text box but rather in an ordinary text paragraph, and none of this
would be an issue. Since you seem to need to have the picture page width
rather than just margin width, it will have to be wrapped, and so,
presumably will the caption, but you need to check the Advanced Layout on
both the picture and the text box to see what is causing the problem you
experienced. Note that both the picture and the caption (as currently
formatted) have to be anchored to some text paragraph. You seem to be aware
of that since you mention moving the anchor. There are also many mysterious
check boxes in the Advanced Layout dialog that may be of significance.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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I inserted a picture (a bitmap), cropped and sized it to fill the page
from side to side, and positioned it 1.5" from the top "margin" so
that it would be at the top of the text area.
I then clicked on Insert Caption and got the usual panel offering
"Figure 1" as its label. Instead of simply inserting a paragraph in
Caption format as usual, it inserted a text box with the caption label
in it. When I typed the content of the caption, the following body
text reduced to a single line. Dragging the picture's anchor to a
different paragraph made whole paragraphs appear or not on the page --
and also made the caption disappear.
I right-clicked the text box to see if it had a "space after" setting,
or some such, and an option was "convert to frame." When I did that,
the body text came back to fill up the bottom of the page.
Why would a text box prevent all but one line of text from appearing
below it?
(All the keep-with options are unchecked -- next, together, and widow/
orphan.)