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figure captions
I inserted a figure and added a caption, then continued typing. As I did my
figure and caption moreoften than not were on separate pages, so to lock them together I put them in a text box. However, captions in text boxes aren't included in the tables of figures, so I converted the text box to a frame. But when microsoft says that conversion to a frame may affect formatting they mean it. How do I keep captions with figures and still make a tble of figures? |
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Instead of putting the figure and caption in a text box and converting it to
a frame, try inserting a frame from the outset. Select the figure and caption and use the Insert Frame button on the Forms toolbar. You'll need to remove the default border (click No Border on the Borders toolbar flyout), and you can right-click on the frame border and choose Format Frame to fine-tune placement. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "mike" wrote in message ... I inserted a figure and added a caption, then continued typing. As I did my figure and caption moreoften than not were on separate pages, so to lock them together I put them in a text box. However, captions in text boxes aren't included in the tables of figures, so I converted the text box to a frame. But when microsoft says that conversion to a frame may affect formatting they mean it. How do I keep captions with figures and still make a tble of figures? |
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You don't say what the problem was with the converted frame. There are
several ways of keeping the caption and figure together - for instance: Put both the caption and the figure into a frame as you have done. You might find you get better results if you insert a frame rather than a text box to start with - the command is on the Forms toolbar. Alternatively you can fix the formatting of the frame to suit what you want. Note that you can make a frame part of a paragraph style - and provided the caption and figure styles are based on the same framed style they will share the same frame. Put the caption into a frame and anchor it to the in-line graphic. Lock the anchor. This is useful if you have captions in the margin, for instance. Use a floating graphic or a graphic in a frame and anchor it to the caption. Lock the anchor. Use "keep with next" on the first of the two paragraphs. If you can put up with captions *above* both figures and tables you can add this to the caption style. Otherwise you'll have to set it on the style you use for the captioned graphic. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "mike" wrote in message ... I inserted a figure and added a caption, then continued typing. As I did my figure and caption moreoften than not were on separate pages, so to lock them together I put them in a text box. However, captions in text boxes aren't included in the tables of figures, so I converted the text box to a frame. But when microsoft says that conversion to a frame may affect formatting they mean it. How do I keep captions with figures and still make a tble of figures? |
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