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.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org