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Captions in Word 2007.
Using Word 2007 in Vista Business.
I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan |
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Hi Roderick,
In Word 2003 Insert=Reference=Caption and in Word 2007 References=Insert Caption are basically the same dialog. In either one, if you had already inserted a caption, placed the cursor in that caption and returned to the dialog mentioned above the choice to move the location to above rather than below the item would be greyed out. If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. ================ "Roderick" wrote in message ... Using Word 2007 in Vista Business. I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Thanks Bob for the advice.
Regrettably, still nothing happens even following your advice to the letter. It seems as if the Insert Caption button might be working under some settings that I don't know of. Clicking on it after doing what you suggest or even what Word 2007 suggests just puts in a Figure caption without any choice or opportunity to change its label or position relative to the object. Still at a loss, I'm afraid, on why it is behaving that way. Roderick "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Roderick, In Word 2003 Insert=Reference=Caption and in Word 2007 References=Insert Caption are basically the same dialog. In either one, if you had already inserted a caption, placed the cursor in that caption and returned to the dialog mentioned above the choice to move the location to above rather than below the item would be greyed out. If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. ================ "Roderick" wrote in message ... Using Word 2007 in Vista Business. I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right
click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. Maybe I'm missing something here, but when I do this (Word 2007 SP1) Word inserts an *additional* caption, at the chosen location; it doesn't actually move the existing one. ~~ Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Roderick, In Word 2003 Insert=Reference=Caption and in Word 2007 References=Insert Caption are basically the same dialog. In either one, if you had already inserted a caption, placed the cursor in that caption and returned to the dialog mentioned above the choice to move the location to above rather than below the item would be greyed out. If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. ================ "Roderick" wrote in message ... Using Word 2007 in Vista Business. I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Mine works exactly the same as yours Stefan. Each time one clicks on the
Insert Caption button expecting the Caption dialog box to open, it instead writes a Figure 1, Figure 2, etc caption alongside one another. I haven't been able to fathom out why this is happening so I have passed the fault to Microsoft Support to see if they can come up with a solution (luckily, I'm within my free support period!). A support assistant has already contacted me to confirm the problem. I know hers is working because she emailed me the sequence of operations and screen grabs of dialog boxes appearing as buttons are selected. I can only wait with bated breath for the solution. Roderick "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. Maybe I'm missing something here, but when I do this (Word 2007 SP1) Word inserts an *additional* caption, at the chosen location; it doesn't actually move the existing one. ~~ Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Roderick, In Word 2003 Insert=Reference=Caption and in Word 2007 References=Insert Caption are basically the same dialog. In either one, if you had already inserted a caption, placed the cursor in that caption and returned to the dialog mentioned above the choice to move the location to above rather than below the item would be greyed out. If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. ================ "Roderick" wrote in message ... Using Word 2007 in Vista Business. I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Captions in Word 2007.
If those other attempts are unsuccessful, you could always delete the
existing caption and then insert a new one to replace it, I guess. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Roderick" wrote in message ... Mine works exactly the same as yours Stefan. Each time one clicks on the Insert Caption button expecting the Caption dialog box to open, it instead writes a Figure 1, Figure 2, etc caption alongside one another. I haven't been able to fathom out why this is happening so I have passed the fault to Microsoft Support to see if they can come up with a solution (luckily, I'm within my free support period!). A support assistant has already contacted me to confirm the problem. I know hers is working because she emailed me the sequence of operations and screen grabs of dialog boxes appearing as buttons are selected. I can only wait with bated breath for the solution. Roderick "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. Maybe I'm missing something here, but when I do this (Word 2007 SP1) Word inserts an *additional* caption, at the chosen location; it doesn't actually move the existing one. ~~ Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Roderick, In Word 2003 Insert=Reference=Caption and in Word 2007 References=Insert Caption are basically the same dialog. In either one, if you had already inserted a caption, placed the cursor in that caption and returned to the dialog mentioned above the choice to move the location to above rather than below the item would be greyed out. If you instead of putting the cursor on the caption and then using right click, place the cursor on the captioned item (in the case of a table right click on the positioning handle at the top left of the table, or select the table), then either right click and choose 'Caption' (Word 2003) or 'Insert Caption' (Word 2007) or return to the menu/ribbon choice mentioned above and you should be able to change the label and location. ================ "Roderick" wrote in message ... Using Word 2007 in Vista Business. I've added a table into a document and added a caption through the References tab, Captions group. This gives me the caption of Figure 1 and puts it below the table. I want to change the caption to Table and put it above it. In Word 2003 I could do this through the setting under InsertReferenceCaption. Looking at Word 2007 Help to do the same tells me I have to select the number on the caption, then click on Insert Caption in the Captions group of the Reference Tab. The described solution in Help does nothing whereas it says I should be able to change the caption. Can anyone tell me, please, where I'm going wrong? Roderick O'Regan -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Captions in Word 2007.
The problem is, Stefan, even if I put a table in the document and want
to add a caption, it still calls it "Figure1" or ...2, ...3, etc. There is no way of changing the caption to "Table 1" etc. The Insert Caption button steadfastly refuses to display the Caption dialog box when I select the table. Roderick On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:43 +0200, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If those other attempts are unsuccessful, you could always delete the existing caption and then insert a new one to replace it, I guess. |
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Oh, I didn't realize you were having the problem with new captions as well.
Does it happen in a particular document only? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Roderick O'Regan" wrote in message ... The problem is, Stefan, even if I put a table in the document and want to add a caption, it still calls it "Figure1" or ...2, ...3, etc. There is no way of changing the caption to "Table 1" etc. The Insert Caption button steadfastly refuses to display the Caption dialog box when I select the table. Roderick On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:43 +0200, "Stefan Blom" wrote: If those other attempts are unsuccessful, you could always delete the existing caption and then insert a new one to replace it, I guess. |
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Yes. It was very annoying. Couldn't do anything with captions.
Everything else was working OK on the Reference tab. As I had said in a previous message in the thread, I was waiting for Microsoft Support to contact me. They did and using their EasyAssist desktop management program they found that my Normal.dotx was the culprit. They removed it and then opened Word again to regenerate a new Normal. Tried the Insert Caption button and...problem solved! It now works OK. As I don't keep anything in Normal it was no bother to have a new one. On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:30:00 +0200, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Oh, I didn't realize you were having the problem with new captions as well. Does it happen in a particular document only? |
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I'm glad you got it sorted, and thank you for the follow-up.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Roderick O'Regan" wrote in message ... Yes. It was very annoying. Couldn't do anything with captions. Everything else was working OK on the Reference tab. As I had said in a previous message in the thread, I was waiting for Microsoft Support to contact me. They did and using their EasyAssist desktop management program they found that my Normal.dotx was the culprit. They removed it and then opened Word again to regenerate a new Normal. Tried the Insert Caption button and...problem solved! It now works OK. As I don't keep anything in Normal it was no bother to have a new one. On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:30:00 +0200, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Oh, I didn't realize you were having the problem with new captions as well. Does it happen in a particular document only? |
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