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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption?
P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
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... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but
there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
On May 23, 8:49 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote:
"Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). Thanks again Stefan. (Further question below, at bottom). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). Would this be in the TableProperties-Row panel? I just place the insertion point within the cell and format the paragraph style as FigureContent (my own style) or TableCaption (my own), which are set to Keep With Next. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and
Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does
it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
If any paragraph in a row is formatted as "Keep with next," this should
suffice, but it may help to select the entire row and apply it. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...ksInTables.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... On May 23, 8:49 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). Thanks again Stefan. (Further question below, at bottom). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). Would this be in the TableProperties-Row panel? I just place the insertion point within the cell and format the paragraph style as FigureContent (my own style) or TableCaption (my own), which are set to Keep With Next. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number
bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
Understood that whole row should be selected. However, the Table
properties don't have Keep With Next switch. This is only under the paragraph style (so far as I could find). I guess I'm applying this to the paragraphs of each cell in the row? Does the entire table row also have a "meta" style (to which Keep With Next is also applied)? I also visited the web page and it mentions a Wrap option under Table Properties. I don't have such an option (Windows 2000). On May 23, 11:07 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If any paragraph in a row is formatted as "Keep with next," this should suffice, but it may help to select the entire row and apply it. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm "Paul" : ... On May 23, 8:49 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). Thanks again Stefan. (Further question below, at bottom). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). Would this be in the TableProperties-Row panel? I just place the insertion point within the cell and format the paragraph style as FigureContent (my own style) or TableCaption (my own), which are set to Keep With Next. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
No, you are applying "Keep with next" to the paragraphs in the row. On the
Table tab of Table Properties, you should have a setting for "Text wrapping" that can be set to None or Around. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... Understood that whole row should be selected. However, the Table properties don't have Keep With Next switch. This is only under the paragraph style (so far as I could find). I guess I'm applying this to the paragraphs of each cell in the row? Does the entire table row also have a "meta" style (to which Keep With Next is also applied)? I also visited the web page and it mentions a Wrap option under Table Properties. I don't have such an option (Windows 2000). On May 23, 11:07 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If any paragraph in a row is formatted as "Keep with next," this should suffice, but it may help to select the entire row and apply it. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm "Paul" : ... On May 23, 8:49 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). Thanks again Stefan. (Further question below, at bottom). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). Would this be in the TableProperties-Row panel? I just place the insertion point within the cell and format the paragraph style as FigureContent (my own style) or TableCaption (my own), which are set to Keep With Next. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify
it again to make it bold. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Thanks for confirming, Suzanne.
On May 23, 5:23 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, you are applying "Keep with next" to the paragraphs in the row. On the Table tab of Table Properties, you should have a setting for "Text wrapping" that can be set to None or Around. "Paul" wrote in message ... Understood that whole row should be selected. However, the Table properties don't have Keep With Next switch. This is only under the paragraph style (so far as I could find). I guess I'm applying this to the paragraphs of each cell in the row? Does the entire table row also have a "meta" style (to which Keep With Next is also applied)? I also visited the web page and it mentions a Wrap option under Table Properties. I don't have such an option (Windows 2000). On May 23, 11:07 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If any paragraph in a row is formatted as "Keep with next," this should suffice, but it may help to select the entire row and apply it. Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/ControlPgBrksInTables.htm "Paul" : ... On May 23, 8:49 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). Thanks again Stefan. (Further question below, at bottom). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). Would this be in the TableProperties-Row panel? I just place the insertion point within the cell and format the paragraph style as FigureContent (my own style) or TableCaption (my own), which are set to Keep With Next. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't
want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using a different word processor. On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify it again to make it bold. "Paul" wrote : That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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I think I get the picture now. I don't think there's any way to do this
automatically. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using a different word processor. On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify it again to make it bold. "Paul" wrote : That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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OK, thanks for letting me know the situation. Not the end of the
world. I can use my god-given fingers to do it manually! On May 25, 11:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think I get the picture now. I don't think there's any way to do this automatically. "Paul" wrote: I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using a different word processor. On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify it again to make it bold. "Paul" wrote : That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
Sorry for the delay in figuring out what you wanted; I jumped into the
thread late and didn't pay sufficient attention to your original post. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... OK, thanks for letting me know the situation. Not the end of the world. I can use my god-given fingers to do it manually! On May 25, 11:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think I get the picture now. I don't think there's any way to do this automatically. "Paul" wrote: I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using a different word processor. On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify it again to make it bold. "Paul" wrote : That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
Gee, no need to apologize. You're a charitable force of one here.
On May 27, 9:39 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Sorry for the delay in figuring out what you wanted; I jumped into the thread late and didn't pay sufficient attention to your original post. "Paul" wrote in message ... OK, thanks for letting me know the situation. Not the end of the world. I can use my god-given fingers to do it manually! On May 25, 11:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think I get the picture now. I don't think there's any way to do this automatically. "Paul" wrote: I think I neglected to properly explain an important point. I don't want the whole caption to be bold, so I unbolded the Caption style. I was seeking a way to automatically make just the label and number bold. Sorry I wasn't more explicit about that. I thought I did it before (bolding of label and number only), but that was probably using a different word processor. On May 23, 5:24 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It sounds as if the Caption style has been modified to be not bold. Modify it again to make it bold. "Paul" wrote : That made my manual bolding go away. It doesn't instill label/number bolding on a caption that hasn't been subjected to manual bolding of label/number. Seems like Ctrl-Spacebar removes any overrides an imposes the formats that are part of the definition of the named style. On May 23, 11:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm afraid I don't know about that, as I don't use the caption feature. Does it reappear if you select the entire caption and press Ctrl+Spacebar? "Paul" wrote: ... My figure caption uses the built-in Caption style, but the Label and Figure Number are not bold. What might cause the default bolding to go away? On May 23, 9:36 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To add to what Stefan has said, the Caption style is bold by default, but there is no reason you have to apply the Caption style to all captions. You can have different ones for table and figure captions (though you'll have to apply them manually, since the built-in Caption style is always applied to captions inserted via Insert | Reference | Caption). This will result in a difference in the way you generate the Table of Figures and List of Tables (they'll have to be based on the label), but that should not be an issue. "Stefan Blom" wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Apply bold formatting, or the Strong character style, to the label. There is no way to do this automatically, though, unless you create AutoText entries to insert the captions (instead of using the Caption dialog box). P.S. I have different paragraph styles for table captions versus figure captions. Table captions appear above their respective tables, so I've turned on Keep With Next. P.P.S. I tried to avoid having separate styles for the two but sticking each caption along with its table/figure into a 2(h)x1(w) table. The idea was to set a table property to prevent the two cells from falling across two pages. Unfortunately, I haven't found such a table property. Is there one? You can format an entire table row as "Keep with next"; that will keep it together with the following row (or with the following paragraph, if you apply the formatting to the last row of the table). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
"Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Hi Paul, I also wanted to do this, but it seems to be impossible. Another feature that I wanted is more control of the label formatting, in particular adding a period, em-dash, and space after the Figure number. Alas this also seems impossible. I hope MS take this as a feature request. |
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Table/figure caption: Bold label & table/figure number
You can create an example caption, with the settings that you want, and then
create an AutoText entry, which you can then insert whenever you want that kind of caption. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jl" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote: How can I bold the label and table/figure number in a caption? Hi Paul, I also wanted to do this, but it seems to be impossible. Another feature that I wanted is more control of the label formatting, in particular adding a period, em-dash, and space after the Figure number. Alas this also seems impossible. I hope MS take this as a feature request. |
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