Captions and thier captors

[David W]

I have been working with pictures that I need captions for so I envoked
the captions command. To my surprise, the caption is not linked to the
picture! So if I want to wrap text around the picture, the caption
wraps also. I really dispise this, I'm sure the geniuses at MS have a
way to prevent this. Can anyone help?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Select both the image and the frame containing the caption and group them.
Then apply the wrap to the grouped object.

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[David W]

Part of the problem is the caption is just text, there is no frame.
When I select the image and the text, the group option (under the draw
button) is not available. Is there a setting or something that may not
be set correctly that puts the caption as just text? This is very
frustrating, I'm getting ready to switch this document to word perfect
where I know the caption is part of the picture.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the caption is plain text, then the picture probably is, too (formatted
as In Line With Text, not wrapped), in which case you format the paragraph
it's in as "Keep with next." Ideally, you define a specific KWN style for
graphics. If you need to wrap text around both picture and caption, format
the picture as In Line With Text, then select both and use Insert Frame from
the Forms toolbar to insert both in a frame together.

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[David W]

Thank's Suzanne, that does work, much more of a problem than in Word
Perfect but I get the results I want. I can't understand why Word
doesn't do like WP and keep the caption with the graphic. If I just
wanted text under a picture, I could just type it there!

 

[Graham Mayor]

You said you wanted the text around the graphic wrapped? For this to happen
the graphic must be inserted in some option other than in-line (where it
behaves like a large font character) - or its layout changed to a wrap mode.
If the graphic is inserted in one of its wrap modes, adding a caption adds a
frame, and this can be grouped with the image.

If you are going to keep worrying about how Word Perfect does things then
you are never going to be comfortable working in Word. These are entirely
different applications that format documents completely differently.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the graphic is inserted in one of its wrap modes, adding a caption adds
a

frame, and this can be grouped with the image.

Unfortunately not true at all. If you select a wrapped graphic and use
Insert | Reference | Caption, you get a caption in a text box, not a frame.
Unfortunately, Word cannot see text in a text box when you want to generate
a cross-reference or a Table of Figures, so you need to either convert the
text box to a frame (which Word can see into) or, as previously suggested,
put both graphic and caption into the same frame.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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