Insert pictures + cross-reference captions

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Benny

I have just upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. I'm working on a long
document, into which I now want to put several hundred pictures. Each
picture will have a caption, which must be linked to a table of contents (or
table of pictures). I have tried inserting the picture in-line>create a
frame around it> caption, so the caption stays in the same frame. However if
I then try to be tricky, like floating the picture so I can wrap text around
it, the picture sometimes leaps outside the margins or otherwise fails to
behave itself.
The online help for W2003 does not seem to offer a procedure - or maybe I
missed it. Is there a simple solution? I know I could leave all the pictures
in-line, but I'd like to get the end result looking nicer than that.
 
When the picture is in a frame, it must be In Line with Text. You wrap text
around the frame rather than around the picture; you can't wrap the text in
the frame around the picture.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Suzanne and other interested parties.
Aha! I think I know where I have been going wrong. I need to specifically
select the frame, with the picture and its caption inside, then use Format
Frame to place it against the right margin or wherever ... I think I must
have just been trying to select and move the picture only.
One more little oddity- I insert picture in-line, put a frame around it,
then right-click to caption. The caption appears in the frame as required,
under the picture, but the caption is outlined with a black line that does
not seem to be selectable. I can give the picture a border OK, or give the
entire frame a border if I want to, but can I do the reverse and remove the
border from the caption- preferably specify that I don't get a border
around it in the first place?
 
Borders can be applied to frames and/or to paragraphs in frames. It sounds
as if your caption paragraph has somehow acquired a border.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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