Grouping catption with Chart object?

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Hello,
I have a chart in my Word (2007) document that I just copied and pasted in
from Excel. I want to do something simple: Add a caption, and group it with
the chart so they stick together.
This is impossible. It's impossible to select a text box (with the caption)
at the same time as the chart itself (if I try, the caption gets deselected
and I end up in "chart mode" with all the chart options in the ribbon), so
there is no way to group them.

I tried adding a textbox inside the chart object itself, and dragged the
contents of the caption there, but then it lost it's "caption properties" and
became just regular text, which made it impossible to refer to it from the
text ("Error! Reference source not found!" ratherthan "Chart 1").

This works fine with pictures, btw, but not with SmartShapes or Charts..
Surely there must be some way of adding a caption and grouping it with the
object?
 
Hi Sylvan,
I have a chart in my Word (2007) document that I just copied and pasted in
from Excel. I want to do something simple: Add a caption, and group it with
the chart so they stick together.
This is impossible. It's impossible to select a text box (with the caption)
at the same time as the chart itself (if I try, the caption gets deselected
and I end up in "chart mode" with all the chart options in the ribbon), so
there is no way to group them.

I tried adding a textbox inside the chart object itself, and dragged the
contents of the caption there, but then it lost it's "caption properties" and
became just regular text, which made it impossible to refer to it from the
text ("Error! Reference source not found!" ratherthan "Chart 1").

This works fine with pictures, btw, but not with SmartShapes or Charts..
Surely there must be some way of adding a caption and grouping it with the
object?
Click to expand...
The difference in behavior to previous versions is due to the new graphics
engine that most of Office (except Word) uses. The old drawing tools (such as
grouping) don't work with things originating from the new engine (such as an
Excel chart object).

Basically, you have three choices.

Insert the chart into a table (using "inline with text" wrapping) and put the
caption in the table as well. You can apply text wrap to the table, if you
require it.

You can insert the chart into a "Drawing Canvas" (which will convert it to a
static picture object).

You can use Edit/Paste Special and choose to paste the chart as an OLE object
type ("Microsoft Office Excel Chart object", analog to what was used in previous
versions. This will let you group it with a text box.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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