Aha! I have snared you. A frame is a "classic" Word feature that Microsoft
began to hide when the text box was introduced. But it turns out that there
are many situations where a text box is not suitable, and this is one of
them because Word can't "see" text in a text box for purposes of TOCs,
cross-references, etc.

To get started with frames, display the Forms toolbar. Select both your
graphic and your caption and click on the Insert Frame button. This will put
both of them in a frame. The frame will probably have a border, which you
can remove using the No Border button on the Borders palette (flyout from
the Formatting or Tables and Borders toolbar) or by selecting None in Format
| Borders and Shading.

Frame positioning is limited compared to text box layout but perfectly
adequate for most purposes. You can choose to have it wrapped or not, and
you can position it relative to the text to which it is anchored or to the
page, margin, or column. (You can't format it as Behind Text or In Front of
Text, but you would rarely want to do that for a graphic and caption,
anyway.) You can drag it with the mouse for rough positioning and then use
Format Frame to fine-tune the position, experimenting to see the results of
the various settings. Note that you can also allow the size of the frame to
adjust automatically to its contents or be fixed at a certain dimension
horizontally or vertically.

If you decide you will use frames often, use Tools | Customize to put Frame
back on the Insert menu where it belongs. It was removed in Word 97 and in
that version actually hidden in the Customize dialog under the pseudonym
"Horizontal," but in later versions it appears in the Insert category as
"Frame."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Jeff" wrote in message
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Aha! Eminently logical. I'll try it.

How do you create a frame? By frame, do you mean a text box? This is not a
web document.

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Jeff Stevens
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Try putting both image and caption (both inline) together in a frame
sized to the width of the image. Then format the frame to be at the
right margin.


"Jeff" wrote in message
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If an image is aligned to the right of a page (Word 2002), is there
a way to center a caption under it (relative to the image)? The
automatic caption created by Word for the right aligned image is by
default aligned right which looks particularly bad if the caption
consists of 2 lines of text.

Formatting it to "center" align is no good because the center
alignment is relative to the page, not the image.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Thanks.

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Jeff Stevens
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