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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the
dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
Wrap a frame around the table and its caption; just select them both and use
the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
Thanks for the reply Stefan,
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but this didn't work for me. The frame groups the caption and table together nicely, but it doesn't adjust the caption text to match the dimensions of the table. The frame dimensions actually match those of the caption text. It also has an unfortunate side effect of killing the property of hidden carriage returns in the caption text, which I use to make cross-references and List of Table generations match my format needs. Greg "Stefan Blom" wrote: Wrap a frame around the table and its caption; just select them both and use the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
Sometimes you have to manually adjust the dimensions of the frame.
Right-click the frame border and choose Format Frame from the context menu; this will open the dialog box that you need. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply Stefan, Maybe I'm doing something wrong but this didn't work for me. The frame groups the caption and table together nicely, but it doesn't adjust the caption text to match the dimensions of the table. The frame dimensions actually match those of the caption text. It also has an unfortunate side effect of killing the property of hidden carriage returns in the caption text, which I use to make cross-references and List of Table generations match my format needs. Greg "Stefan Blom" wrote: Wrap a frame around the table and its caption; just select them both and use the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
I forgot to mention that I don't see a way to make hidden paragraph marks
work inside frames. And, unfortunately, the style separator doesn't seem to work in this situation either. :-( -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Sometimes you have to manually adjust the dimensions of the frame. Right-click the frame border and choose Format Frame from the context menu; this will open the dialog box that you need. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply Stefan, Maybe I'm doing something wrong but this didn't work for me. The frame groups the caption and table together nicely, but it doesn't adjust the caption text to match the dimensions of the table. The frame dimensions actually match those of the caption text. It also has an unfortunate side effect of killing the property of hidden carriage returns in the caption text, which I use to make cross-references and List of Table generations match my format needs. Greg "Stefan Blom" wrote: Wrap a frame around the table and its caption; just select them both and use the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "guyeda" wrote in message ... Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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Getting Table caption margins to match Table dimensions
The "top row of table" option is probably the easiest in the long run.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "guyeda" wrote in message ... Is there any quick way to get the margins for a table caption to match the dimensions of the table in Word 2003? I have a document with tables of varying widths and it would be nice if when entering a caption, it would simply adjust its margins to adopt the width of the table. From reading the various other solutions here, it seems like one option is to add a row to the top of the table, make it all one cell and cut/paste the caption into that cell, but I was wondering if there's a quicker way. |
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