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Picture Captions
Using Word2007...
I have a lengthy document with multiple photos inserted at various places throughout. I would like to add a line or two below each photo of what I'd call a "caption". Word2007 does offer a "Text Box" option under the Insert Tab or an "Insert Caption" under the References tab (which is practically the same thing) but the problem is that these captions/text boxes are merely in line with all the other text. When any editing occurs before the text box, it will move up and down with the text. Is there any way of locking the caption/text box to the picture so that it does not move or at least they move together? Strangely there is one Caption offered called a "Sticky Caption" that does almost what I want. However, it has some other appearance attributes to it that I don't want. (Still trying to figure out how they made it sticky!) Any ideas or should I be using a dedicated DTP program? Baldy |
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If you have access to a DTP program it would be a far preferable direction
to go, but if a good one isn't available to you: Create a one-cell table or a Frame for each picture, then use the Insert Caption feature to caption each one. Set the Text Wrapping property of the table/frame to Around. That will give you about as much control as you can get. Just remember that the table/frame is still anchored to a paragraph, so as the text repaginates so goes the object attached to it - that's just how Word works Neither option, however, will allow the Caption to get picked up in a Table of Figures unless each graphic & its caption retain their InLine with Text attribute. I'm not familiar with the "Sticky Caption" as yet - still too much demand for prior versions to poke & prod '07 as much as I'd like, so I can't comment on it. Perhaps more will be offered by someone more aware of the feature as well as some other ideas. Check back for additional replies. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Baldy" wrote in message oups.com... Using Word2007... I have a lengthy document with multiple photos inserted at various places throughout. I would like to add a line or two below each photo of what I'd call a "caption". Word2007 does offer a "Text Box" option under the Insert Tab or an "Insert Caption" under the References tab (which is practically the same thing) but the problem is that these captions/text boxes are merely in line with all the other text. When any editing occurs before the text box, it will move up and down with the text. Is there any way of locking the caption/text box to the picture so that it does not move or at least they move together? Strangely there is one Caption offered called a "Sticky Caption" that does almost what I want. However, it has some other appearance attributes to it that I don't want. (Still trying to figure out how they made it sticky!) Any ideas or should I be using a dedicated DTP program? Baldy |
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Picture Captions
Change the picture to Square. Right click the picture, choose Format
Picture, select the Layout Tab, select Square, Click OK. Do the same with the caption text box. Position the caption. Select both the text box and the picture. On the Drawing Tool Bar, click Draw, Group. Then your picture and caption are tied together and will move together. Note that your picture is no longer "in-line". It is floating. Apparently it cannot be re-formatted to in-line and now has a different behavior. For example, text flows around the picture. Gordo "Baldy" wrote in message oups.com... Using Word2007... I have a lengthy document with multiple photos inserted at various places throughout. I would like to add a line or two below each photo of what I'd call a "caption". Word2007 does offer a "Text Box" option under the Insert Tab or an "Insert Caption" under the References tab (which is practically the same thing) but the problem is that these captions/text boxes are merely in line with all the other text. When any editing occurs before the text box, it will move up and down with the text. Is there any way of locking the caption/text box to the picture so that it does not move or at least they move together? Strangely there is one Caption offered called a "Sticky Caption" that does almost what I want. However, it has some other appearance attributes to it that I don't want. (Still trying to figure out how they made it sticky!) Any ideas or should I be using a dedicated DTP program? Baldy |
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