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Captions in landscape.
I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is
open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. |
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Captions in landscape.
It is not clear what you are attempting, but see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...apeSection.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. |
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Captions in landscape.
It is not clear what you are attempting, but see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...apeSection.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. |
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Captions in landscape.
You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which
is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. |
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Captions in landscape.
You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which
is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an
important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Graham for referring me to the article by Suzanne. Right after I
posted my question I realized that I had not stated my problem clearly. What I meant is that I have a picture in landscape to a portrait page, and I want to place a caption under the picture so that when the page is turned 90 degrees the caption show right to left. I hope I am clear this time. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It is not clear what you are attempting, but see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...apeSection.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Graham for referring me to the article by Suzanne. Right after I
posted my question I realized that I had not stated my problem clearly. What I meant is that I have a picture in landscape to a portrait page, and I want to place a caption under the picture so that when the page is turned 90 degrees the caption show right to left. I hope I am clear this time. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It is not clear what you are attempting, but see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...apeSection.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it
turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it
turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you very much Suzanne for the extensive explanation to solve my
problem. I will try it later on. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you very much Suzanne for the extensive explanation to solve my
problem. I will try it later on. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Suzanne,
I was able to achieve entering cations in landscape. In the process I leaned a lot from your instructions. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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Captions in landscape.
Thank you Suzanne,
I was able to achieve entering cations in landscape. In the process I leaned a lot from your instructions. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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Captions in landscape.
I'm glad you got where you wanted to go.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne, I was able to achieve entering cations in landscape. In the process I leaned a lot from your instructions. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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Captions in landscape.
I'm glad you got where you wanted to go.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne, I was able to achieve entering cations in landscape. In the process I leaned a lot from your instructions. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Frames are old tech, which MS intended to replace with text boxes, but it turned out that there are some things for which text boxes are not suitable. Because text boxes are in the drawing layer, Word cannot "see" them when creating a TOC, TOF, cross-references, etc. And you can't insert footnotes, endnotes, or comments in text boxes. Frames, however, are in the text layer, so they satisfy all these needs. They don't have as many wrapping styles as text boxes (basically two: None and Around), so they're not suitable for placing text on top of graphics, for example, but they work very well for some other purposes because they can "float" much like a text box (be placed anywhere on a page). Subsequent versions of Word have made it increasingly difficult to find frames. In earlier version, Frame was on the Insert menu. Then it disappeared, to be replaced by something with a deceptively similar name but an entirely different purpose (it creates a "frames page" in a Web file). In Word 97, if you wanted to restore Frame to the Insert menu, you had to know that, in the Customize dialog, it was hiding under the name "Horizontal." Later versions had not hidden it quite so well. Through all those versions, however, there has always been an Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar, and you can access it that way in any version (even in Word 2007, from the Legacy Tools on the Developer tab). But you can also add the command to a toolbar or menu in earlier versions or the QAT in Word 2007. For one use of frames in Word, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm The main point here, however, is that the Text Direction command, which allows you to rotate text, is present in frames and table cells as well as in text boxes. If your landscape graphic was rotated in an external program (so that it can be inserted In Line With Text and still be rotated), then the simplest solution is to place the graphic in the left cell of a two-column, one-row table and your caption text (rotated) in the right cell. If the graphic has to be rotated in Word, then you can't place it actually IN the table, but you can anchor it to the table paragraph and position it over the column. Alternatively, you can create a one-cell table, set its wrapping to Around, and position it as required. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... Thank you Suzanne. I have to learn about frames which seems to be an important item in dealing with captions. I have your article on this item referred to me by Graham. Although it deals with headers and footers, it is still important to me. I have to read it a couple of times to familiarize myself with its contents. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can also change text direction in a table cell or frame, either of which is visible to the Table of Figures. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Aris Meneshian" wrote in message ... I am trying to caption a landscape picture. The only way I am able to do is open a text box. Is there a way of captioning without a text box so that the captions appears under the picture going vertically? I am using Word 2003 with Windows 7. . . |
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